[plug] LaTeX -> Word converter?

[Mike]

At 12:00 PM 16/10/2000 +0800, you wrote:
>Getting off-topic a little here but this is, arguably, not a fault with
>the application but rather with the operating system.  My understanding
>of the problem is that Word pads out the buffers that it saves with
>random data that it allocates from memory.  Since Windows 9x & Co. do
>not zero out memory that has previously been allocated to another
>program, whatever happened to be in memory previously (passwords,
>cryptographic keys, your shopping list, ...) gets written into Word
>files.  Of course, you could argue that Word should either zero/set
>these buffers before using them or just use some *sane* way of padding
>the buffer but, at the end of the day, it is the operating system's
>responsibility to ensure that such leakage doesn't happen.


YES - Thats a good point, one of my associates at Memo in Osborne
park had (to start with) a 100K file and when saved to disk was
a little over 20MBytes,  <groan>

Rgds

Mike