Re: TECH? Another List question

On Saturday 25 January 2003 10:40 am, Roger Mills wrote:
> A week ago, I received a batch of files from another, so far unknown to us,
> conlanger.  They were all  .doc files, and all opened successfully in
> Wordpad except one (the largest 350KB) which simply produced a blank
> Wordpad page, the lovely little hour-glass thingy, then nothing, nothing,
> nothing, and freeze-up.  He re-sent the file a day or two later, same
> problem. What's going on?  His problem (as I suspect) or mine (perish the
> thought)???
        Ask said conlanger to resend the document in a different format, such as RTF
or even HTML. MS .doc format should never be trusted as an exchange format,
since it changes with each iteration of Word.
        :Peter