Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 08:30:13 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@NUXI.com> To: Bill Vermillion <bv@wjv.com> Cc: "Julian Stacey Jhs@jhs.muc.de" <jhs@jhs.muc.de>, alexus <ml@db.nexgen.com>, dave bartels <dkbart@nwrain.com>, freebsd-jobs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Word .doc format Not wanted. Message-ID: <20011108083013.M76565@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <20011108103913.A59220@wjv.com>; from bv@wjv.com on Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 10:39:13AM -0500 References: <ml@db.nexgen.com> <200111081136.fA8BaJ001848@jhs.muc.de> <20011108103913.A59220@wjv.com>
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On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 10:39:13AM -0500, Bill Vermillion wrote: > > FreeBSD.Org list mandate & many FreeBSD readers, EG publicly > > defined formats: Ascii (or HTML if you must). > > Even html is a pain for us who live in a text environment. How?!?!? Come on guys, this is the year 2001! Geez, HTML is everything we demand -- an open format and a pure text one. Stop using that 1975 mail client and modernize. Mutt + urlview + links(or lynx) works beautifully and lets you handle any type of ASCII-based format. Shoot add antiword + xv + xv + xpdf to the mix and there is little I cannot read. (I may loose .doc formatting, but at least I can read the text content) I am not advocating HTML formatted messages in all cases, just those where the formatting is important. > If I get a .doc format file that feel I must read, I must move it > to a Windows machine - which is used about 2% of the time - if I > need to see more than the plain text - which I can get through > 'catdoc' in the ports tree. All formatting gets lost in that. Try 'antiword', it actually maintains the formatting well (at say the memo complication level). -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-jobs" in the body of the message
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