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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!vic.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!newsfeed.internetmci.com!csn!news-1.csn.net!csn!nntp-xfer-2.csn.net!symbios.com!southwind.net!complete.org!not-for-mail From: jgoerzen@complete.org (John Goerzen) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: Historic Opportunity facing Free Unix (was Re: The Lai/Baker paper, benchmarks, and the world of free UNIX) Date: 24 Apr 1996 23:14:14 -0500 Organization: Communications Centre (+1 316 367 8490) Lines: 40 Message-ID: <4lmu6m$3cp@complete.org> References: <4ki055$60l@Radon.Stanford.EDU> <DpsKyx.1Jo@catzen.gun.de> <tporczykDptpAL.8uG@netcom.com> <4l0fv9$1bfs@news.missouri.edu> <4l2u61$fdg@solaria.cc.gatech.edu> <4l4crd$nus@miso.cs.uq.edu.au> <31769650.284D5C90@lambert.org> <4lg7ev$isk@news.missouri.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: complete.org X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.system:22488 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:866 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:3556 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:3413 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:18290 comp.os.linux.advocacy:47332 Justin "Rhys Thuryn" McNutt (rhys@vortex.cc.missouri.edu) wrote: : Terry Lambert (terry@lambert.org) wrote: : : : ] Too short sighted. Did Netscape go and write a Word6 compatible : : ] WWW browser? No. Applications *don't* live forever (Word6 : : ] cannot load Word3 documents, for example). : : Yeah, but Netscape isn't a word processor. Besides, if Netscape *could* : read Word 6 files directly as "web pages", it would be a hell of a feature. A useless feature that would add unnecessary code bloat to an already too-large program. : So you just write two modules: tex2msw6.o and msw62tex.o. Distribute : them pre-compiled with the source for the rest of the package. Be : happy. The Linux word processor just has to be capable of reading and : writing Word docs. It doesn't have to reveal how it's done. Why? Word isn't a standard under Windows. Around here, most people I know run WordPerfect. The only true multi-platform, popular, familiar, and publicized standard capable of handling all necessary information for multiplatform document transfer, conversion, and processing that we have to date is PostScript. And we already have GhostScript. : -------- : If you can lead it to water and force it to drink, it isn't a horse. : : Got a Linux problem? Or can you help others solve them? Visit the Linux : Common Problems page at http://vortex.cc.missouri.edu/~rhys/linux.html : : rhys@vortex.cc.missouri.edu -- John Goerzen Custom programming | Preserve our 1st Amendment Rights | | Free Power! Run you computer faster| Main e-mail: jgoerzen@complete.org | with FreeBSD! http://www.freebsd.org|