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- From: dcorn@paradise.pplnet.com (David Corn)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
- Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 04:34:38 GMT
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- On Fri, 12 Apr 1996 14:35:51 GMT, finnh@ak.planet.gen.nz (Finn
- Higgins) wrote:
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- >>On Fri, 05 Apr 96 09:42:00 +0200, sm@mk2.maus.sauerland.de (Stefan
- >>Mueller) wrote:
- >
- >>>Hallo David,
- >>>
- >>>[ MS Soft is cheap and good ]
- >>>
- >>>And with File Formats which change with every release and are not
- >>>understood by the rest of the world, if you use the "special features".
- >>>
- >>>MS Soft is quite nice -- if you only use MS products.
- >
- >>They do? Tell me why I can directly load Word 7.0 files in Word 6.0,
- >>then? Ditto with Excel 5 and 7. And of course, going down versions
- >>(loading lower versions) isn't a problem. Word's file import features
- >>are better than anything available on the Amiga.
- >
- >God, you are getting desperate. You make a point (usually wrong) about the
- >amiga, when people correct you, you just move on to another (wrong) point.
-
- What's wrong above?
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- >O.k, if the PC has such wonderful file formats, how come I can load PC files
- >AND Amiga ones into my spreadsheet? They are using the same format, so how
- >can one be better than the other?
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- Load an Excel 7 spreadsheet into your Amiga. Ancient Lotus 2.1
- documents don't count as a standard anymore, Finn.
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