[Gllug] Distribution Pecking Order So far

[John Edwards]

On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 03:40:27PM +0100, tet at accucard.com wrote:
> 
> >Solaris on my boxen at work - well, it's a company standard for some
> >strange reason.
> 
> I've been wondering about this -- what do you do (the company in general,
> not you specifically) when people send you documents in MS format? Yes,
> Star Office handles most of them now, but it's only recently that it's
> done so, and it still doesn't catch them all. ISTR that Sun used to use
> FrameMaker internally for documentation, but I guess that's changed now.
> 
> I can't imagine it being politically acceptable to have a Windows box on
> every desk...
> 
> Tet

At a previous place of work the Unix people used to use Wordperfect v6 
on Solaris which read Word docs <6, until people started to send Word 97 
files which it could not read. When told that Wordperfect would not be 
upgraded they then used "strings" on these documents or simply ignored 
them if that did not work. Text is not so hard to write when you try.


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