Ok, this is my first foray into debian-user and this behaviour doesn't impress me. I'm not a newbie, I've been using debian for the past 6 years after changing from redhat.
Did you actually bother to find anything out about MS Project? If it is indeed in clear text then 'less' is a useful suggestion, but in my experience MS files are usually binary. You should have suggested that they export to a cleartext file if you don't agree with cross-compatibility - which is actually how M$ behaves by changing their file formats all the time and keeping them closed. Just my 2 cents. Joel On 7/25/05, Anders Breindahl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am sorry, that you read it as me picking on newbies. That was not my > intention; I merely (attempted unarrogantly) tried to state the not-always > obvious. > > I am also sorry to announce, that I am one of those, who will be ``jumping > down peoples' throats'' in the case of not keeping to the net-etiquette. It > really makes it less satisfying to be a part of the community. I suppose I > don't belong on -user with this standpoint; but as it seems like the only > place in Debian I may be of service, I stick around, keeping my annoyance to > myself (mostly, that is). > > In defence of my post, though: > It is my experience, that the Windows-community uses cleartext files more > often than one assumes. (Opposite to arbitrary binary formats). > Often I have been able to extract the information I needed by treating the > files as cleartext. > I am also convinced, that no one would want to run a Windows-only IDE on a > GNU/Linux machine -- and I therefore assumed that Rajiv only wanted to do the > ``extracting information''-part, and therefore could cope with `less`. > > > Project is a beast that I am afraid to learn. But I would be interested > > to know if anyone has tried it in wine. > > Not that I have the ability to command such development forces -- but wouldn't > creating a Microsoft-compatible program be a misallocation of Free Software > development ressources? > The trouble about .doc seems to prove that to me: The more we want a a > FS-alternative to a Microsoft program, the harder they will make it to > develop? > > Regards, Anders Breindahl. > > >