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16 Feb
2001
16 Feb
'01
10:30
Thanks for replying. This laptop does run only linux but it spends much of its time sitting inside the UK NHS net where all sorts of horrible ms office docs get sent all over the place. My concern was that I might receive a corrupted one (save it locally and then convert it for my own use - I tend to use catdoc from within emacs) but then forward the original to some poor unsuspecting ms ensalved secretary. Cheers Francesco