[Gllug] Recruit scum

Pete Ryland pdr at pdr.cx
Sat Mar 15 01:00:53 UTC 2003


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.
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