| From: | Don Cox |
| Date: | 6 Sep 2000 at 22:22:58 |
| Subject: | Re: Sanskrit not |
On 06-Sep-00, Gerald Mellor wrote:
>
> Hi Garry, on 06-Sep-00, you wrote:
>
>> Due to the upward mobility at work I now find myself having to deal
>> with Documents produced by that well known memory gobbler/ M$ word/
>> . What I want to know is what's the best util for both reading and
>> writing Word Dicuments on the Amiga. Unfortunately due to Company
>> anti-virus policy ASCII is banned.
>
> A rather stupid policy if you ask me... but anyway, for reading Word
> documents you could try the MS Word datatype (available from
> http://go.to/docdatatypes ), or there's MSWordView (from Aminet). As
> for writing them, I'm not sure if that's possible with Amiga software.
I use Word Converter for importing. PageStream and probably others will
export in RTF, which is a Microsoft format and goes into Word nicely.
Your company has got it the wrong way round. You _can't_ have a virus in
an ASCII document, but you _can_ have one in a Word .doc file (or in an
Outlook email). It is Word .docs that should be banned.
I find it hard to believe even a company can be that stupid. But I
suppose so ...
At least a Word or Outlook virus won't affect an Amiga.
Regards
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