Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!wjh12!dow From: dow@wjh12.harvard.edu (Dominik Wujastyk) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Word Processor Document Conversion Message-ID: <221@wjh12.harvard.edu> Date: 1 Jun 88 18:55:11 GMT References: <10442@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Reply-To: dow@wjh12.UUCP (Dominik Wujastyk) Organization: Harvard University, Cambridge MA Lines: 19 In article <10442@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> willis@violet.berkeley.edu (Willis Johnson) writes: > ... >Microsoft is a whole other can of worms. In my experience they've >been secretive and sometimes hostile to reasonable requests for >information. Everything is a "proprietary trade secret." Like many >others I know, I have decided not to offer any support for their >products in my software (other than DOS, of course). > I called MS on the phone and asked for the spec of RTF and they sent it to me straight away. Perhaps this was not typical, though? Dominik -- bitnet: user DOW on the bitnet node HARVUNXW arpanet: dow@wjh12.harvard.edu csnet: dow@wjh12.harvard.edu uucp: ...!ihnp4!wjh12!dow