Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 11:26:01 -0500 From: Joel Dinel <dinjo@touchtunes.com> To: Simon Siemonsma <simon.freebsd@hccnet.nl> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, stanb@awod.com Subject: Re: is there a msword reader in ports? Message-ID: <20020206112600.A62129@sunder.touchtunes.com> In-Reply-To: <20020206160930.23C33525@fia168-94.dsl.hccnet.nl>; from simon.freebsd@hccnet.nl on Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 05:09:29PM %2B0100 References: <20020206154507.GA13279@teddy.fas.com> <20020206160930.23C33525@fia168-94.dsl.hccnet.nl>
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There is 'catdoc', 'word2x' and 'xlhtml' (for Excel spreadsheets), all available in the ports tree. On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 05:09:29PM +0100, Simon Siemonsma wrote: > From: Simon Siemonsma <simon.freebsd@hccnet.nl> > To: stan <stanb@awod.com> > Subject: Re: is there a msword reader in ports? > Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 17:09:29 +0100 > X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] > Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > On Wednesday 06 February 2002 16:45, you wrote: > > I've decided to use fetchmail to retrieve my company mail onto my work > > FreeBSD workstation. > > > > Unfortunately some of it is in msword format. I'm using mutt as a reader, > > and it's pretty smart about using external programs to read files. > > > > So, is there a msword reader, that I can use? In ports preferably. > > I don't know if there is a program for the console. > The usual, graphical based, word processors do this to varying degrees. > I use kword (part of KDE), which didn't give me big problems until now. > Starwrite is know for it's excellent compatibility with MS-Word. > The Gnome word processor should also do it. > There also excists something like wv (orignally mswordview) see www.wvware.com > > Hoping this is helpfull to you. > > Simon > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message ---end quoted text--- -- Joel Dinel System Administrator TouchTunes Digital Jukebox, Inc. GnuPG key : http://darkhost.mine.nu:81/~joel/misc/mykey.asc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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