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- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 10:46:31 -0500
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- From: robertb@MATH.MIT.EDU
- Subject: Re: Wordperfect 5.2
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- at Nov 9, 92 02:36:55 pm
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- Judi Geistlinger writes....
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- > Actually yes. I have 5.0 at home and when I took that floppy into the office
- > that had 4.2, the office version could not read the 5.0 version. I am curious
- > whether the new software will be readable by 5.1 users.
-
- Definition: backward compatible
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- Backward compatible means that more advanced versions of applications
- can use files created by less advanced versions of the same application.
- In this case, backward compatible means that Version 5.0 of WP will be
- able to read Version 4.2 files.
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- Ms. Geistlinger's confusion would create a "future compatible" application,
- in which the application I write now will understand file formats that
- are invented, say, five years from now (!). :)
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