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Date:      Wed, 13 Jan 1999 12:54:22 +1030
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Greg Black <gjb@acm.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: MS-Word viewer
Message-ID:  <19990113125421.A8886@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <19990112205358.28182.qmail@alice.gba.oz.au>; from Greg Black on Wed, Jan 13, 1999 at 06:53:57AM %2B1000
References:  <19990112205358.28182.qmail@alice.gba.oz.au>

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On Wednesday, 13 January 1999 at  6:53:57 +1000, Greg Black wrote:
> Is there anything in the BSD world that I can use to read files
> produced with Microsoft Word?

Several people have responded with various suggestions, most of which
work some of the time.  In my experience there's *nothing* which will
understand all versions of Word and their idiosyncrasies.  If you can
stop people producing the files, you'll be a whole lot better off.

Greg
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