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From: jeffe@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (George J. Jefferson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Converter from MS Word to text or nroff [or Scribe] available?
Keywords: Microsoft Word, text conversion
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Date: 12 Jul 90 13:07:22 GMT
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>	Personally, I think we should just have the lowest common
>denominator stored on-line -- PostScript.  After all, several of us can
>program in it, and almost every program can output it.  But, that's why
>they call her the boss... :-)

I have to agree with the boss here.  Postscript is good for printing,
but it is particularly difficult edit.  For example a text file in
PostScript format contains 'carriage returns' at the end of each line.

George Jefferson    jeffe@eniac.seas.upenn.edu   george@sol1.lrsm.upenn.edu