Re: Word and Happy99 and things

[Peter Evans peterev@xxxxxxxx]

Paul Williams:

>I am probably guilty of a terminological inexactitude
>but whatever this thing involving a macro based on a
>template is it sounds nasty

Yes. But there are different levels of nastiness: (i) sounds nasty, (ii)
is nasty, (iii) will really screw things up even for people who use their
heads. Note that there is now a largish industry (Symantec, Network
Associates, et al.) who have a large financial interest in keeping
everybody scared.

>Ah. And XyWin came out when? And has there been an update?

Well, you know, TTG are so busy constantly working to improve their
products that they have no time left over for releasing them. But isn't it
good to know that XyWin 4.13, 4.14, 4.15, 4.16 etc. all exist, even if only
on diskettes in the company safe? (Or so I imagine.)

Carlo Caballero:

>Even with the formatting commands in guillemets, the file is
>still all ASCII characters (i.e., non-binary).

Well, in one sense of "binary", any file is binary. And I haven't seen
much consistency in the use of other senses. NB guillemets themselves
aren't ASCII.

But you (plural) are making a good point: that one can embed more nasties
within a Word file than within a Xy file.
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Peter Evans