RE: Linux on the desktop

On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, The Rev. Shamim, D.D., LFHCfS wrote:

> (Incidentally, the Microsoft file formats are anything but "de facto
> standards." There is no unique MS-Word format, and I often see strange
> formatting caused by incompatibilities between versions of MS-Word.)

As I understand it, MS Office files don't actually have a file format as
such (compared with, say, GIF, or RTF, or HTML); last I heard, they're dumps
of the in-memory OLE data structures.

Yeah, ewwww.

> -s

Best Regards,
Alex.
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