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Hello Roy - 

TW>> Open Office is an excellent example. It is a Second best
TW>> decidedly when compaired to Win Office Suite. In fact Jean
TW>> Parrot sent me a program with a MS word Doc it could not
TW>> Handle. 

CA>> The ".doc" file is a poor choice as a 'test' of
CA>> compatibility. 

RJT> Agreed, though an awful lot of people who I send my resume
RJT> to lately are asking for it in "word format"... 

They always have and if you ask them what version they are
using you get a long pause and a "duh". 

CA>> Windows versions over the years have been incapable of
CA>> reading ".doc" files created by previous versions of
CA>> Windows. 

RJT> Actually I think that's only the case when you're spanning
RJT> a *lot* of version numbers. More often it's the other way
RJT> around,  where a slightly earlier version can't deal with
RJT> stuff produced by later versions. I remember Douglas Myers
RJT> commenting on this some time back, specifically. 

Compatibility of formatted documents is a problem in both
directions. 

CA>> When Microsoft can't read their own file format who can be
CA>> faulted for having the same problem? 

RJT> The file format is a moving target, no doubt about that. 

With no sign of a let up either. 

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