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Date:      Tue, 29 Sep 1998 23:42:25 -0700
From:      TS Waterman <waterman@ricochet.net>
To:        Jerry Hicks <jhicks@glenatl.glenayre.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: MS-Word formats 
Message-ID:  <199809300642.XAA12375@home>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 29 Sep 1998 16:38:39 EDT." <199809292038.QAA00318@jhicks.glenatl.glenayre.com> 
References:  <199809292038.QAA00318@jhicks.glenatl.glenayre.com>  

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Jerry Hicks writes:
 >
 >Usually the subject is how to read these from FreeBSD.  I'm searching
 >for a way of doing the opposite, that is producing a .DOC file usable
 >by MS-Word.
 >
 >I don't have Word but am wondering if it suffices to produce RTF
 >output from FreeBSD and simply name it with the .DOC extension?

I'm quite sure that you can make an RTF file, and give it a ".rtf" extension.
That works fine. I've done it many a time.
I think Word'll get confused if you give it a .doc tag without
it really being a .doc file.

--ts
	didn't this type-by-extension idea go out 25 years ago?

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