Re: [Fwd: TWiki Feedback]

From: Hubert Figuiere <hfiguiere_at_teaser.fr>
Date: Fri Mar 10 2006 - 05:51:18 CET

> The suggested fix to make Abiword for Mac OS X automatically default to MS
> Word .DOC format does not work on this page:
>
> http://www.abisource.com/twiki/bin/view/Abiword/WinFaqAlwaysSaveAsWord
>
> I have added the additional variable as suggested and it did not work.

I think it is an old bug in the Mac version where extensions are
ignored. http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=8043

I would have to dig further to figure out. But it is not a priority 1.
Please file a bug for this case.

> Perhaps the variable name(s) have changed?

No. It still works on other platforms.

> I could dump MS Word on Mac OS X (for three workgroup) and move to Abiword
> if I can only roll out .DOC as a default format for Abiword. Oh, how I want
> to kill everyday use of Word in my department because of a year-old bug that
> occasionally prevents overwriting existing Word 2004 documents. (GRIN)

BTW you should know that AbiWord write RTF files with a .doc extension.
While MS-Word does not care, some other more broken software do.

Hub
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