From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 6 9: 0: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nelly.internal.irrelevant.org (irrelevant.demon.co.uk [158.152.220.121]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D3B737C08C for ; Wed, 6 Feb 2002 08:40:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from simond by nelly.internal.irrelevant.org with local (Exim 3.34 #1) id 16YV6r-0001Rx-00; Wed, 06 Feb 2002 16:39:49 +0000 Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 16:39:49 +0000 From: Simon Dick To: Simon Siemonsma Cc: stan , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: is there a msword reader in ports? Message-ID: <20020206163949.GD3839@irrelevant.org> 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 In-Reply-To: <20020206160930.23C33525@fia168-94.dsl.hccnet.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.26i 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 On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 05:09:29PM +0100, Simon Siemonsma wrote: > 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 If he just wants text based ones then either catdoc (which I use with mutt) or apparently antiword (never used this one) will convert word into text with varying degrees of success (it's enough to see what the doc is at least) -- Simon Dick simond@irrelevant.org "Why do I get this urge to go bowling everytime I see Tux?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message