I can give you one better than that, Sam.
I told a correspondent I couldn't view MS-Word files, and asked that she
convert them to plain ascii. She wrote back to say she couldn't manage
it. Was she saying she was lacking in ability, or that MS-word can't
handle that type of conversion? I thought it could ...
l.d.
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On Tue, 14 Mar 2000 15:35:44 -0500, Sam Ewalt wrote:
> Many people persist in sending me MS-Word files as attachments
> to their emails.
> Is there a easy to use DOS utility that could convert these
> damn files to text so that I could just read them without having to
> pester and educate the senders?
> Much of the world just assumes now that MS-Word is "standard"
> practice. Lots of people that correspond with me are clueless
> about the Microsoft deviation from standard email.
> Sam Ewalt
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