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On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 12:15:58PM -0500, Wizard wrote: > > > This makes another assumption that I find extremely irritating... > > > What if I don't have access to Microsoft Word? > > > > Agreed. If someone sends me a word doc, I don't read it. > > That's one way of dramatically reducing the number of resumes that you have > to read ;-). Probably by about 85%. Nearly anyone can read the average Word > document with OpenOffice, ABIWord, or StarOffice, so "Microsoft Word" is > really a misnomer. In truth, I exaggerate. I don't let principle get in the way of, say, doing what's required of me in my job so I don't get fired... ;) That said, I do trash lots of spurious word attachments. I only read them if necessary. I typically use 'wv'. > > My personal preferred format for formatted text is postscript. Anyone > > with a postscript printer driver can make a postscript file; and > > ghostview runs on pretty much anything. Sad thing is, simple as this is > > to do, many will claim it's over their head. Which makes me > > sardonically wonder if I care about their compositions in any format. > > Whatever your preferred format, text and Word format are substantially more > prevalent. I like to think that with education, people will eventually change their ways such that in the future things will be different. I can dream. -- Ron Peterson -o) 87 Taylor Street /\\ Granby, MA 01033 _\_v https://www.yellowbank.com/ ----
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