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Hello Wayne - 

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

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

WC> Opened just fine here :-) 

Seems to depend on what MSWord program created the ".doc" file
though. I don't recall exactly how this worked but my MSWord v2
resume was fine until about v4 then it had to be rewritten
until v6 etc. There was a good deal of formatting involved in
the file and redoing it was a pain (to me). 

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

WC> Tell me about it :-( I keep RECORDS of business
WC> transactions on computer and Winblows fails to read it's
WC> own file format! 

When I worked as a consultant we purchased a program for $100
that could convert between all of the popular word processing
software of the time with few, if any, mistakes. 

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

WC> I've got F-86.doc on /dev/fd0 and
WC> /home/knoppix/tmp/F-86.doc here and Knoppix Open Office has
WC> no trouble with the file at all. 

Trying to read various MSWord versions might net you somewhat
less success. That a word processing file format had to change
as much and as often as MSWord was changing seemed a bad
business decision and I'm not a business trying to retain
archives of past documents. 

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