Re: DOC or RTF?

From: Hubert Figuiere (hfiguiere@teaser.fr)
Date: Thu Nov 07 2002 - 03:27:51 EST

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On jeudi, nov 7, 2002, at 09:07 Europe/Paris, F J Franklin wrote:

> On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, sang wrote:
>> I am a newbie for AbiWord-dev list. Now I have be confused with
>> AbiWord.
>> I just want type some text and save it as Microsoft Word Doc file.
>
> AbiWord's support for writing MSWord .doc is highly experimental and is
> available only in DEBUG builds. In non-DEBUG builds we offer the
> option of
> saving RTF with a .doc file extension since MSWord seems able to
> understand these and most people don't care about DOC/RTF so long as it
> looks like an MSWord .doc file...
>

Even more: early Word97 versions did save file as RTF when saving file
as Word 6/95.
BTW, name an HTML file as .doc and it'll work too :-)

Hub

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