[Coco] OS Vulnerabilities

[Neil Morrison]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Theodore (Alex) Evans" <alxevans at concentric.net>
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> >>> Does it have a MSWord-compatible text editor?
> >> Sleazy question.  Is it able to handle this proprietary format?
> >> Yes Yes No Yes Some Yes Yes
> >
> > This is not a sleazy question at all. MSWord is the default word
> > processing
> > format, squall though you might about that. There is no
> > business-to-business trade that does not use MSWord for its
document
> > creation and exchange, save for a few niche areas (mostly in
techdom
> > and
> > [decreasingly] music production and print shops).
>
> Documents for publication are still occasionally exchanged as PDF
or PS
> files.  It is _still_ a sleazy question.  It isn't a standard.  In
any
> case it is widely supported by non-MS software.

IMO, Word Perfect 5.1 for DOS is much more of a standard. A very
large number of programs can handle that format, and there was once a
Unix version. Even MS Word can read/write it.

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