Re: [TCLUG:3188] Re: x86 vs StrongARM Linux

[Ben Luey <lueyb@carleton.edu>]

> Unreliable gossip has it that WordPerfect has had a unchanged file
> format since version 6.x and that winXX and UNIX versions use the same
> file formats and work well together. There are also rumors that Corel
> Office handles Office 97 file formats reasonably well (or at least as
> well as can be expected when translating proprietary binary formats).
> Can anyone substantiate these rumors? Thanks in advance,

Wordperfect 6.0 and up for all OS's uses the same file format. The new
features in 7 and 8 are setup such that they open fine in wp6, but the new
features is missing. This means that 98% of the time when you make a doc
in wp8 (linux, win95, whatever) it is readable to wp6 and 7 and should be
easily importable into word. (Word on the other hand changes thier file
format with every version). 

Ben