[Gllug] Recruit scum

[Bruce Richardson]

On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 01:00:53AM +0000, Pete wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 09:45:28PM +0000, Mark Preston wrote:
> > Re:-
> > "You have sent me a file with rtf on the end, I cannot use that, may I 
> > have a word document instead?  We run Word 98 and it cannot open these 
> > files."
> > Pete Ryland wrote:
> > $ mv cv.rtf cv.doc
> > 
> > 
> > or
> > $ mv cv.doc cv.rtf?
> > A lemon entry my dear Watson.
> 
> Actually, an rtf file named cv.rtf is *not* readable by Word[1], whereas,
> the exact same file, named cv.doc actually is.  The truth is stranger than.
> 
> Possibly misunderstanding you,
> Pete
> 
> [1] Note that I haven't used MS Word for about four or five years, so this
> may have changed.

You must have been using a *very* old version from an alternate universe,
then.  Word has had native support for RTF since version 1.0.  They tout
the format as one of their innovations.

-- 
Bruce

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