Status of USR Doc conversion (was Re: New vgetty release)

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Hello,

Robert J. Brown wrote:
> 
> No, the problem he is facing is broken RTF -- Microsoft *CHANGES* the
> definition of RTF with every new release of msword.  This makes it
> impossible for non-M$ programmers to keep utilities up to date.  The
> best advice would be to load the msword doc intoan *OLDER* version of
> word and then save that as the RTF.  That would probably generate the
> definition of RTF that the rtf2html filter is expecting.

Oh!
I think, you can't load new DOC-files into older M$-murks application.
The incompatibilities between different versions of wooord is the
biggest feature in this applications. :-)))))))

tschau
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