From everson@indigo.ie Mon Mar 9 17:44:58 1998 Received: from relay01.indigo.ie (relay01.indigo.ie [194.125.133.225]) by dkuug.dk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id RAA08144 for ; Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:44:55 +0100 Received: (qmail 22384 messnum 238172 invoked from network[194.125.134.220/ts02-090.dublin.indigo.ie]); 9 Mar 1998 16:44:52 -0000 Received: from ts02-090.dublin.indigo.ie (HELO ?194.125.134.220?) (194.125.134.220) by relay01.indigo.ie (qp 22384) with SMTP; 9 Mar 1998 16:44:52 -0000 X-Sender: everson@mail.indigo.ie Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <1656E0287@apollo.forbairt.ie> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Mon, 9 Mar 1998 16:45:35 +0100 To: sc22docs@dkuug.dk From: Michael Everson Subject: Re: (Fwd) (SC22docs.449) SC22 N2669 - SC22 Chairman Report on JTC Somebody said: >I wondered about that too, but, while the basic formats are the >same, Word 7 (known officially as "Microsoft Word for Windows >95" will sometimes insert controls that Word 6 does not >understand (this is, of course, undocumented). And Word 6 >processors will respond to at least some of those Word 7 >controls with a magnificant "error message" that starts out >"General Protection Fault...". So banning it, or forcing >explicit Word 6 downgrading is perhaps rational. I have never understood how it can be that software like this can possibly be as popular as it seems to be. No one would buy a car built like this. Michael Everson