Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 08:04:31 +0930 (CST) From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: sos@sos.freebsd.dk (Søren Schmidt) Cc: grog@lemis.com, luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MS Word documents (was: Advice sought on PnP configuration) Message-ID: <199707312234.IAA07578@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199707310922.LAA00130@sos.freebsd.dk> from =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= at "Jul 31, 97 11:22:24 am"
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Søren Schmidt writes: > In reply to Greg Lehey who wrote: >> Luigi Rizzo writes: >>>> >>>> Save yourself some money, and start with (shudder) >>>> http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/ >>> >>> too bad they only have MS Word documents (what would you expect!) >> >> Has anybody investigated what it would take to convert MS Word to a >> portable format? So much stuff is sent in it nowadays, even by people >> who should know better. Is it that difficult? If somebody can point >> me to some format documentation, I'm prepared to have a hack at it. > > I use StarDivision StarOffice packet, it reads word6 docs and writes it > in almost anything, it has a little problems with word7 but it can be > used. You then get a nice Office packet as a sideeffect :) I've heard conflicting things about StarOffice. But it's not what I'm looking for: I'm looking for a program, UNIX-style, which converts MS Word format to something readable. It could, for example, be used to read MS Word mail attachments. Greg
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