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Story: The ticking time bomb of old file formats.Total Replies: 1
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Abe

Jul 04, 2007
10:02 AM EDT
Quoting:Mr Frazer said: "It's an open international standard under independent control. These are no longer under control of Microsoft and are free for access by all."
I guess they will not stop lying as long as there are people who keep believing them, like Adam Farquhar

Quoting:Adam Farquhar, head of e-architecture at the British Library, praised Microsoft for its adoption of more open standards.

He said: "Microsoft has taken tremendous strides forward in addressing this problem. There has been a sea change in attitude."
I always wondered if they had idiots in key position over in GB like we have here in the US. No need to wonder any more.

tqk

Jul 04, 2007
12:37 PM EDT
Quoting:"Automation is a key area to work on. We need to be able to convert hundreds and even thousands of documents at a time," he said.


mkdir new for f in *.doc; do catdoc ${f} > ./new/$(basename ${f} .doc).txt done

That'll be one million dollars please and thank you.

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