Re: Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard

From: Stan Barr (stanb45_at_dial.pipex.com)
Date: 03/24/05 

Date: 24 Mar 2005 20:05:54 GMT

On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 13:12:59 +0000 (UTC), Andrew Swallow
<am.swallow@btopenworld.com> wrote:
>Peter Flass wrote:
>[snip]
>
>> In an ideal world maybe, but in reality all it implies is "in wide use."
>[snip]
>
>Or for the Civil Service to use word processor independent RTF format.
>No changes to the law are needed. The use of RTF in bids for government
>contracts will cause its use to spread through private sector companies.

I had this discussion with one of our (UK) Government agencies. They said
they would look at it, but I'm not holding my breath :-) They did promise
to send me docs in rtf on request, if the document didn't contain any
MS specific features, so some are at least willing to try... 

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