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From:Richard Wheeldon
Date:7 Sep 2000 at 10:15:09
Subject:Re: Sanskrit not

Alastair M. Robinson wrote:
> BTW, have you ever seen a hex dump of a word file? It's *unbelievable*
> just how much sheer crap gets included - quite apart from the infamous
> unique ID numbers identifying the machine that created the document. It's
> even possible for snippets of previous documents to be included 8^0

Iirc, Word Docs are little more than a memory dump of whatever is used
by
M$ Word internally. Perhaps we should bash the programmers over the head
with a copy of the EA-IFF 85 spec until they see sense ;)

Richard

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