[svlug] StarOffice 5

[J C Lawrence]

On Wed, 11 Nov 1998 00:02:17 -0500 
Timothy King<tking at nsmail.net> wrote:

> Don Marti wrote:
>> I do all my business on Linux exclusively.  People don't send me
>> Microsoft Word files -- ever since I explained to them that
>> there's a utility called "strings" that lets me read not just
>> what's visible to the Microsoft Word user, but also a lot of
>> stuff that the user thinks is long-deleted.

> I know what you mean!  Despite my whining, people still send me
> Microsoft Word Files.  I keep telling them "Hey, I've got this
> cool Linux utility called strings and it lets me see things you
> have deleted in your Word files. Things like 'This is a bank
> robbery. I have a gub'".

A chap I'm sueing sent me a proposed contract as an MS Word
attachment.  My reply:

  "Please resend in an industry standard format."

I didn't like him enough to suggest possible formats.

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