Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 14:08:49 -0800 From: Ulf Zimmermann <ulf@Alameda.net> To: David O'Brien <obrien@NUXI.com> Cc: Bill Vermillion <bv@wjv.com>, "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: <20011108140849.F76838@seven.alameda.net> In-Reply-To: <20011108083013.M76565@dragon.nuxi.com>; from obrien@NUXI.com on Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 08:30:13AM -0800 References: <ml@db.nexgen.com> <200111081136.fA8BaJ001848@jhs.muc.de> <20011108103913.A59220@wjv.com> <20011108083013.M76565@dragon.nuxi.com>
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On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 08:30:13AM -0800, David O'Brien wrote: > 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. I use mutt, but from a ssh connection. Mostly it will display HTML ok as plain text, but often enough stuff is encoded wrong for mutt to recognize and change it. > > 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) Anything which causes to call an external program to be called and needs X or svga, no thank you. > > 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 > -- Regards, Ulf. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Ulf Zimmermann, 1525 Pacific Ave., Alameda, CA-94501, #: 510-865-0204 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-jobs" in the body of the message
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