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Date:      Sat, 3 Aug 2002 09:58:36 +0930
From:      Brian Astill <bastill@sa.apana.org.au>
To:        "Christopher J. Umina" <uminac@216-164-225-145.c3-0.wth-ubr2.sbo-wth.ma.cable.rcn.com>, FreeBSD Question Mailing List <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Editor for Word files
Message-ID:  <200208030022.g730MGL39351@tierzero.apana.org.au>
In-Reply-To: <20020802174119.X46138-100000@216-164-225-145.c3-0.wth-ubr2.sbo-wth.ma.cable.rcn.com>
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On Sat, 3 Aug 2002 07:12, Christopher J. Umina wrote:
> Hello,
>
> 	Anybody know of a text based editor that I can just view and/or
> edit Microsoft Word documents?

There can be no such thing, as M$ docs are not plain text.
Perhaps you mean a console-based M$ Word editor?
I don't know of one.

However, any text editor (le, vi, emacs ...  etc) can read .doc files.   You 
simply have to remove the Word crud to and bottom and edit the text as you 
wish.  You finish up with an edited TEXT file, though, which mght not be what 
you want.

-- 
Regards,
Brian

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