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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