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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)

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