From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 6 2:51:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from netgates.co.uk (macmail.netgates.co.uk [194.105.64.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58FDC14A0A for ; Wed, 6 Oct 1999 02:51:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from didds@freenet.uk.com) Received: from freenet.uk.com (saul.netgates.co.uk [194.105.64.199]) by netgates.co.uk (8.7.5/8.x.x) with ESMTP id KAA04554 for ; Wed, 6 Oct 1999 10:51:19 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <37FB1B9A.9528C984@freenet.uk.com> Date: Wed, 06 Oct 1999 10:51:22 +0100 From: Ian Diddams X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Reading MS Word files References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 4 Oct 1999, Darren Foo wrote: > > > Are there any programs available for Windows that would serve as a > > X-server? I want to read MS Word and Office documents but MS support > > under unix has been lacking. I might be missing Darren's point here but doesn't Star Office support MS format files ie can read Word, Excell etc files? And allegedly has better filters than MS for such stuff? -- Didds To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message