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From: Luke Davis <ldavis@shellworld.net>
To: blinux-list@redhat.com
Subject: Re: AFT -- Almost free text.
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 17:53:58 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.44.0201111752340.62978-100000@server1.shellworld.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0201110951220.7539-100000@dave.private.mielke.cc>

On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, Dave Mielke wrote:

> >Why? Because .RTF or HTML files can be a little bit more
> >pleasant to read --
>
> And many, many other reasons.
>
> That, of course, wasn't my question. My question was why a person would want to
> have a Linux tool which converted simple text into Word. That's just not
> useful.

The point is: converting ASCII into a .doc format, does nothing to change
the document.  It just makes the file format word native--it does nothing
to make the text "look better".

Luke




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Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
 Gil Andre
 ` Dave Mielke
   ` Gil Andre
     ` Dave Mielke
       ` Gil Andre
         ` Dave Mielke
           ` Charles McCathieNevile
             ` Dave Mielke
       ` Luke Davis [this message]
 ` ddunfee
 Martin G. McCormick
 ` Dave Mielke
   ` Charles McCathieNevile
     ` Dave Mielke
       ` Ron Marriage
         ` Dave Mielke
       ` Charles McCathieNevile
 ` Luke Davis
 Ian Blackburn
 ` Luke Davis

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