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From: unkydave@shumv1.uucp (David Bank)
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Subject: Re: Explanation of ".doc" format needed.
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Date: 23 Oct 89 00:21:15 GMT
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   Uh, Bob Breedlove....not quite.

   To the original Poster: try "Type <filename>.doc" on the files
That should tell you is it is ASCII text or something from a word
processor. The latter will have all sorts of wierd characters
in the text/

    What are these files, if not word processor files?? Documentation
files from software on your system, most likely in ASCII text.

   Are these "standard"???? No, not really. The only "standard"
filename extensions in PCLand are "COM" "EXE" and "BAT".....everything
else is the choice of the creator of the file.

Unky Dave
unkydave@shumv1.ncsu.edu