From: Alan Horkan (horkana@tcd.ie)
Date: Sun May 12 2002 - 12:36:19 EDT
I strongly object to this being removed from the stable release builds, on
my behalf and on behalf of all the users who will complain if you do.
Please do remove it from the unstable bleeding edge builds when there is
at least a reasonable start at an alternative.
Andrew was right, it was long debated and the developers stongly objected
to it. Eventually the developers (dom i think) decided a little wrapper
to rename .rft to .doc automagically was worth it to avoid all the grief
and answering stupid questions.
This is not the answer to the problem. Hopefully the password protected
documents problem has already been fixed or can be fixed without the need
to do anything rash.
Sincerely
Alan Horkana
On Sun, 12 May 2002, Christian Biesinger wrote:
> Date: Sun, 12 May 2002 08:04:07 +0200
> From: Christian Biesinger <cbiesinger@web.de>
> To: abiword-dev@abisource.com
> Subject: Re: password prompt when choosing doc on rtf
>
> Andrew Dunbar wrote:
> > --- Christian Biesinger <cbiesinger@web.de> wrote: >
> >>The issue seems to be that Abiword doesn't open RTF
> >>files when Word is
> >>chosen in the filter list.
> >>
> >>I vote for removing the Word entry from the save as
> >>list until we actually
> >>support exporting Word's format.
> >
> > I thought we debated this long ago and decided not
> > to ever save RTF as .doc or am I misunderstanding
> > something?
>
> While I don't know if this has ever been debated, I just checked and
> when saving as a MS Word Document, you get a RTF File with a .doc extension.
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