RE: Abi and RTF standards

From: Hubert Figuiere (hfiguiere@teaser.fr)
Date: Mon Mar 25 2002 - 10:35:10 EST

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    On Mon, 2002-03-25 at 16:28, Gino Peregrini wrote:

    > I agree completely. People forget that nothing's perfect, especially
    > MS code. I teach on the university level, tech writing. I have tried to
    > get my students to use RTF. Do they? Not many

    If I were the teacher, those that do not follow the rue would get a F

    > So compatibility with DOC
    > is very useful for me. I often open doc files attached to email on my
    > linux box at home. I have few to no problems.
    >
    > I did have an odd situation last fall. A student sent an RTF file created
    > with XP; the AbiWord I was using then wouldn't open it. He resent it as
    > DOC and it opened fine. This problem hasn't recurred, but I don't think
    > many are using XP yet. Has anyone else encountered this?

    If you could get a sample like that, we'd be happy to have a look at it.
    That should not happen.

    Hub



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