On Sat, 14 Jun 2003, Harmon Seaver wrote:
I sure don't have any problems with word or excel docs. Ever heard of OpenOffice? I send people doc and xls files all the time, nobody's complained yet.
Why, yes, as a matter of fact, I have heard of it. I'd even use it for more than attempting to read .docs, if I didn't find vim to be superior for just about everything I do with text. OO even parses some documents well, most of the time. Which is of course not good enough. When you're dealing with folks that edit, re-edit, pass around, turn on revision tracking, fast save, pass the document around some more, turn off revision tracking, and then email you the file, It chokes. Hard. As Bill said, input formats are not output formats. -j -- Jamie Lawrence jal@jal.org "The sign that points to Boston doesn't have to go there." - Max Scheler