IWETHEY v. 0.3.0 | TODO
1,095 registered users | 0 active users | 0 LpH | Statistics
Login | Create New User
IWETHEY Banner

Welcome to IWETHEY!

New On Vista and Wordpad
PeeWee writes:
OpenOffice opens it without issue. (As does Wordpad if you haven't been Vista-ed yet)
What does that mean -- that Vista's Wordpad doesn't...? Or (more likely) that there is no Wordpad in Vista?


   [link|mailto:MyUserId@MyISP.CountryCode|Christian R. Conrad]
(I live in Finland, and my e-mail in-box is at the Saunalahti company.)
Ah, the Germans: Masters of Convoluted Simplification. — [link|http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/?p=1603|Jehovah]
Expand Edited by CRConrad Jan. 3, 2007, 03:05:40 AM EST
New Vista's Wordpad won't open .DOC files.
[link|http://www.google.com/search?complete=1&hl=en&q=vista+wordpad&btnG=Google+Search|http://www.google.co...tnG=Google+Search]


Peter
[link|http://www.no2id.net/|Don't Let The Terrorists Win]
[link|http://www.kuro5hin.org|There is no K5 Cabal]
[link|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org|Home]
Use P2P for legitimate purposes!
[link|http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?pwhysall|A better terminal emulator]
[image|http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h262/pwhysall/Misc/saveus.png|0|Darwinia||]
Expand Edited by pwhysall Jan. 3, 2007, 03:39:21 AM EST
New Ah. How about if one renames them to *.RTF? :-)
New What if it really /is/ a .DOC?
Dunno. Haven't got a Vista install to play with at the moment.


Peter
[link|http://www.no2id.net/|Don't Let The Terrorists Win]
[link|http://www.kuro5hin.org|There is no K5 Cabal]
[link|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org|Home]
Use P2P for legitimate purposes!
[link|http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?pwhysall|A better terminal emulator]
[image|http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h262/pwhysall/Misc/saveus.png|0|Darwinia||]
New That's the one I'm wondering about, yes.
The other not-too-unusual case, where it really /is/ an .RTF that just happens to be /named/ .DOC, those it really oughta open, IMO. If it doesn't do that, then I'd take that fact as proof that this was /not/ about security, but deliberate crippling in order to enhance sales.

(And yeah, yeah, people may point to the free[-as-in-beer] Word Viewer all they want -- but when one program is replaced by two like this, I don't think that's for the /customers'/ convenience. Does that Viewer thingy even come with Vista? For free? With all eleventy-seven editions?)


   [link|mailto:MyUserId@MyISP.CountryCode|Christian R. Conrad]
(I live in Finland, and my e-mail in-box is at the Saunalahti company.)
Ah, the Germans: Masters of Convoluted Simplification. — [link|http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/?p=1603|Jehovah]
New Might install Vista tonight and find out.
Hurrah for Parallels.

I'm going to delete Solaris 10 and OpenSuSE 10.2. I've discovered what I want to know about both of them. (They're inscrutable and still crap, respectively).

Watch this space. I've also got Office 2007 Beta kicking around, so will install that, too.


Peter
[link|http://www.no2id.net/|Don't Let The Terrorists Win]
[link|http://www.kuro5hin.org|There is no K5 Cabal]
[link|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org|Home]
Use P2P for legitimate purposes!
[link|http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?pwhysall|A better terminal emulator]
[image|http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h262/pwhysall/Misc/saveus.png|0|Darwinia||]
New OK. The answer. (210KB & 160KB img)
Same source file, two formats, three filenames.

Definitive answer? Wordpad on Vista does not open Word .DOC files.

Left to right: .DOC, RTF, RTF with .DOC extension.

[image|http://homepage.ntlworld.com/peter.whysall1/vista_wordpad.png||||]

Just to prove the point (notice how the .DOC version is wrapped differently to the RTF version):

[image|http://homepage.ntlworld.com/peter.whysall1/xp_wordpad.png||||]


Peter
[link|http://www.no2id.net/|Don't Let The Terrorists Win]
[link|http://www.kuro5hin.org|There is no K5 Cabal]
[link|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org|Home]
Use P2P for legitimate purposes!
[link|http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?pwhysall|A better terminal emulator]
[image|http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h262/pwhysall/Misc/saveus.png|0|Darwinia||]
New That's clearly Broken By Design.
RTF is an ASCII version of the binary DOC format. Supporting the former but not the latter can only be highly deliberate.

Wade.
"Don't give up!"
[link|http://staticsan.livejournal.com/|blog] · [link|http://yceran.org/|website]
     On Vista and Wordpad - (CRConrad) - (7)
         Vista's Wordpad won't open .DOC files. - (pwhysall) - (6)
             Ah. How about if one renames them to *.RTF? :-) -NT - (CRConrad) - (4)
                 What if it really /is/ a .DOC? - (pwhysall) - (3)
                     That's the one I'm wondering about, yes. - (CRConrad) - (2)
                         Might install Vista tonight and find out. - (pwhysall)
                         OK. The answer. (210KB & 160KB img) - (pwhysall)
             That's clearly Broken By Design. - (static)

It's like a nuclear blast in the basement.
77 ms