On Mon, 2002-03-25 at 16:28, Gino Peregrini wrote:

> I agree completely. People forget that nothing's perfect, especially
> MS code. I teach on the university level, tech writing. I have tried to
> get my students to use RTF. Do they? Not many

If I were the teacher, those that do not follow the rue would get a F

> So compatibility with DOC
> is very useful for me. I often open doc files attached to email on my
> linux box at home. I have few to no problems.
> 
> I did have an odd situation last fall. A student sent an RTF file created
> with XP; the AbiWord I was using then wouldn't open it. He resent it as
> DOC and it opened fine. This problem hasn't recurred, but I don't think
> many are using XP yet. Has anyone else encountered this?

If you could get a sample like that, we'd be happy to have a look at it.
That should not happen.

Hub

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