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From: bob@sactoh0.UUCP (Bob F. Breedlove)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Explanation of ".doc" format needed.
Summary: .DOC format
	 Microsoft Word DOC
Message-ID: <1969@sactoh0.UUCP>
Date: 22 Oct 89 16:35:38 GMT
References: <19912@ut-emx.UUCP>
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Organization: Sacramento Public Access, Ca. USA
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In article <19912@ut-emx.UUCP>, rdd@walt.cc.utexas.edu (Robert Dorsett) writes:
> Are files with .doc suffixes (a) equivalent to standard text files, or
> (b) standardized in PC land?
> 
> 
> My attempts thus far have resulted in the data being transferred, but also 
> substantial noise appearing at the beginning of the files and interspersed (in
> discrete blocks) within the file data.  
> 
Sounds like you've gotten hold of a word processor file.  The most
common is Microsoft Word which uses the .DOC extension.  You can
load these into the MAC version of Word.  If not, get someone with
word to "print" these files to a disk file.  This should eliminate
the "noise" which is probably formatting information.
-- 
Bob Breedlove  SYSOP: BOBsBBS (916/929-7511)
        pacbell!sactoh0!bob