Re: Docs To Go and Abiword

From: Hubert Figuiere <hfiguiere_at_teaser.fr>
Date: Sun Nov 14 2004 - 15:43:40 CET

On Sun, 2004-11-14 at 13:26 +0000, Alan Horkan wrote:
> I explained it was not cheating at all, Microsoft have used the same
> trick
> themselves. (I think wordperfect may have also allowed use of
> the .doc
> file extension arbitraritly).

No it was a bug in Word. In Word97, saving in Word 6 format to make a
RTF with a .doc extension. The following Service Pack for Word 97 did
address that.

Hub

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