From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 12 18:25:02 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA11240 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 18:25:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA11192 for ; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 18:24:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id MAA25758; Wed, 13 Jan 1999 12:54:22 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id MAA41033; Wed, 13 Jan 1999 12:54:22 +1030 (CST) Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 12:54:22 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Greg Black Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MS-Word viewer Message-ID: <19990113125421.A8886@freebie.lemis.com> References: <19990112205358.28182.qmail@alice.gba.oz.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <19990112205358.28182.qmail@alice.gba.oz.au>; from Greg Black on Wed, Jan 13, 1999 at 06:53:57AM +1000 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message