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On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 07:59:15 +1300, Nathan Mercer wrote:

>> They're so good that MS staff were discovered to be using them to recover
>> Office documents which had bee trashed so badly that Office could no
>> longer open them.
>
>
> Discovered? You make this anecdotal information sound so bad, but you
> wanted it to right? Did you discover that they used a text editor like
> Notepad or Wordpad to recover documents too?

<snigga>

When the latest and greatest Micro$oft software cannot read it's own
files people have to resort to the use of Open Source software or to
the oldest/original M$Windows-based plain-text editor.

Delightful!


Lennier

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Lennier wrote:
>>>They're so good that MS staff were discovered to be using them to recover
>>>Office documents which had bee trashed so badly that Office could no
>>>longer open them.

>>Discovered? You make this anecdotal information sound so bad, but you
>>wanted it to right? Did you discover that they used a text editor like
>>Notepad or Wordpad to recover documents too?

> <snigga>
> When the latest and greatest Micro$oft software cannot read it's own
> files people have to resort to the use of Open Source software or to
> the oldest/original M$Windows-based plain-text editor.
> Delightful!

At work I use OO.o for corrupt file recovery... it is the best recovery
tool I have used...

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