(j3.2006) ballot comments

[Van Snyder]

On Tue, 2008-08-19 at 13:54 -0700, Lionel, Steve wrote:
> The question is - what would you recommend as a widely-available and
> used alternative?  Like it or not, most people consider Word the
> "standard" for editable document interchange. Word or Word-compatible
> tools are available for the major desktop platforms.

How about plain ASCII text, which actually is an international standard?

Perhaps we should add something to the OPEN statement in Fortran to read
and write WORD documents?

Van

> Steve
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: j3-bounces at j3-fortran.org [mailto:j3-bounces at j3-fortran.org] On
> > Behalf Of Michael Ingrassia
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 4:41 PM
> > To: j3 at j3-fortran.org
> > Subject: Re: (j3.2006) ballot comments
> > 
> > >Doesn't Sun's free OpenOffice support reading and writing .doc files
> > on
> > >Linux/Mac?
> > 
> > Yes, http://download.openoffice.org/other.html#en-US has downloads
> > for Windows, Linux, Solaris, and Mac OSX.
> > 
> > There's really no reason for INCITS to require Word, and it doesn't
> > promote INCITS standards.  Is there some way we can protest?
> > 
> > 	--Michael I.
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