Subject: Re: reminder -- we need exporters *AND* importers
From: Robert Sievers (bob@abisource.com)
Date: Sun Jan 30 2000 - 01:24:35 CST
>From: crawford@furlong.seagull.net (goingware.com)
>Message-Id: <200001300319.TAA01267@furlong.seagull.net>
>Subject: Re: reminder -- we need exporters *AND* importers
>To: abiword-dev@abisource.com
>In a recent trip to Canada, I got the message that anyone who wants to work
>with Canadian people (and the newfoundland provincial government, probably
>lots of other governmental bodies) has to be interoperable with
>WordPerfect.
>
>They don't give a hoot for Word. They all use WordPerfect.
>
>I think this far precedes WordPerfect being acquired by Corel, a Canadian
>corporation. But now that it is published by a Canadian company, of course
>there's the patriotism factor and the general annoyance Canadians have with
>American cultural imperialism.
>
>Also on the Linux platform, there's the fact that Word Perfect is pretty
>inexpensively available for Linux - $19 in a box in Silicon Valley and I
>recall hearing about free downloads but I'm not sure.
>
>On the other hand, the WordPerfect format is pretty nasty. It uses binary
>escape codes intermingled with the text. The codes are pretty poorly
documented.
>I used to work on a speller that interpreted WordPerfect format and it was a
>bitch to keep working.
>
>Mike Crawford
>crawford@goingware.com
>http://www.goingware.com
>
>
>
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