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From: Gregory Nowak <gnowak1@uic.edu>
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Why do you say it isn't necessary to write word documents when that format is being used widely in the work place and academic settings today?
Greg


On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 09:47:31AM -0500, Janina Sajka wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Dave Hunt wrote:
> 
> > ... It's called "antiword", ...   It
> > cannot write MS Word files.
> 
> It isn't necessary to write MS-Word, it's only necessary to read it 
> correctly. Users of Word can read text or HTML perfectly well.
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> > -Dave
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