Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 08:01:22 -0400 From: "Kyler, Ken, Maj, OSD/P&R" <KylerK@PR.OSD.MIL> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: MS-Word formats Message-ID: <1CEBA9183DF8D111B4F700805FBBCB691BA988@dddc011.pr.osd.mil>
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Word will take it either way. Generally the rtf extensions are registered to Word on Microsloth systems anyway. Ken Kyler -----Original Message----- From: TS Waterman [mailto:waterman@ricochet.net] Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 1998 2:42 AM To: Jerry Hicks Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MS-Word formats 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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