From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 6 8:54:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from linuxmail.touchtunes.com (operator.touchtunes.com [216.94.139.201]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13F6237BB1C for ; Wed, 6 Feb 2002 08:26:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from sunder.touchtunes.com (sunder.touchtunes.com [192.168.0.26]) by linuxmail.touchtunes.com (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA12659; Wed, 6 Feb 2002 11:26:23 -0500 Received: (from dinjo@localhost) by sunder.touchtunes.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g16GQ1T62191; Wed, 6 Feb 2002 11:26:01 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from dinjo) Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 11:26:01 -0500 From: Joel Dinel To: Simon Siemonsma Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, stanb@awod.com Subject: Re: is there a msword reader in ports? Message-ID: <20020206112600.A62129@sunder.touchtunes.com> Mail-Followup-To: Joel Dinel , Simon Siemonsma , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, stanb@awod.com References: <20020206154507.GA13279@teddy.fas.com> <20020206160930.23C33525@fia168-94.dsl.hccnet.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20020206160930.23C33525@fia168-94.dsl.hccnet.nl>; from simon.freebsd@hccnet.nl on Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 05:09:29PM +0100 X-Useless-Header: Look ma, it's a # sign! X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > To: stan > 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