"Peter Crowther" peter@ozzard.org wrote:
From: [...] Darius Could Open Office provide the ideal, standard, multi-lingual, multi-platform rich text format for Squeak?
Well, I don't have it installed on my iPAQ, and I rather doubt Tim has it installed on his Acorn.
True, though oddly enough the ol'acorn can handle quite a few niche formats of this sort. The folks at Acorn took a very different approach to Apple; they concluded (correctly) that they were going to have to live in a heterogenous world and so made their system friendly to almost all others. Apple took the view that only their stuff was 'real' and made it very difficult to work with other platforms. I suppose that has improved a bit with OSX recently.
I'd say it is an interesting lesson to us; _if_ we want to be able to work with other systems _then_ we need to creat importer and exporter capabilities. Of course, that may not be what we want in life. YMMV.
tim -- Tim Rowledge, tim@sumeru.stanford.edu, http://sumeru.stanford.edu/tim Strange OpCodes: JUM: Jeer at User's Mistake