On Sunday 13 January 2019 22:39:54 Gregg Eshelman via Emc-users wrote: > Have the authors of those programs ever actually used a properly > functioning text editing program? Can xmlcopyeditor even open the > files it saves?
yes, np. > I have, several times over the years, run into programs > that could save in formats they could not open, or would auto-corrupt > files they'd just saved upon re-opening them. So if you couldn't get > the job done 100% and perfect in one go, forget it. For example > trueSpace can save to VRML 1 and 2 but cannot open version 2 files. That sucks, at about 10-34 torr. > There was a version of Word Perfect for Windows that was a decent HTML > editor, or would have been if it didn't totally FUBAR HTML files it > had been used to create when the user re-opened them in Word Perfect. > Way back in the DOS days there was a graphics program I was eager to > like because of the features it had, until I first used it, did > something, saved the image - then found the program could not open > that format. > > Being able to open file formats it can't save to is nearly as > horrible, if the software can save to a different format without > making a mess of the data. Makes you want to move south and hunt alligators for a living. :( Thanks Gregg. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
