From: Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail@yahoo.com)
Date: Sun May 12 2002 - 21:59:15 EDT
--- Christian Biesinger <cbiesinger@web.de> wrote: >
On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 05:36:19PM +0100, Alan
> Horkan wrote:
> > I strongly object to this being removed from the
> stable release builds, on
> > my behalf and on behalf of all the users who will
> complain if you do.
>
> What exactly were the complaints of the users? Did
> they just want to be
> able to export to MS Word docs?
Basically yes. It's easy to find the old threads on
Google if you want to read through them:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=.doc%20.rtf+site:.abisource.com
> Can't we just say "We don't support that, use RTF"?
That's exactly what we said. Problem is hardly
anybody knows what an RTF is. I've been doing my
resume in RTF recently and all the job sites ask
for MSWord .doc specifically. So I manually rename
my resume.rtf to resume.doc and nobody complains but
you can almost bet they'd complain if they saw that
"wrong" extension. Especially if double-clicking on
it opened WordPad instead of Word...
> Oh well. I don't want to start an old discussion
> again... I'm working on a
> patch to import rtf documents even though the user
> has chosen "MS Word" in
> the dropdown list.
I don't think that's the right answer. In the RTF
versus .doc case I can't imagine there should ever
be a problem but in the general case you only specify
an exact file type so that you can override the auto
detection for cases where it's wrong or cases like
opening an HTML as plain text for instance.
Well maybe it's the right answer - this is a fuzzy
case ):
Andrew Dunbar.
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> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a
> little temporary
> safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
> --
> Benjamin Franklin
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