From: Dave Mielke <dave@mielke.cc>
To: <blinux-list@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: AFT -- Almost free text.
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 12:18:55 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0201111216220.7539-100000@dave.private.mielke.cc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200201111639.g0BGdpg79022@dc.cis.okstate.edu>
[quoted lines by Martin G. McCormick on January 11, 2002, at 10:39]
> I send and receive ASCII files all the time and people
>use them, but just as we would rather get sound files we can
>play and text files we can read without doubling the cost of our
>work stations or going to a lot of various other forms of hassle,
>the general user community wants stuff they can use without a lot
>of trouble.
But a Word user can already use a plain text file, so I'm still trying to
understand what's so great about a tool which converts a plain text file, which
already is Word-usable, into another format. Nothing is gained, which makes the
tool entirely useless.
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