From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 2 17:23:53 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E39FD37B415 for ; Fri, 2 Aug 2002 17:23:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tierzero.apana.org.au (sa.apana.org.au [203.14.158.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7930743EA9 for ; Fri, 2 Aug 2002 17:23:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bastill@sa.apana.org.au) Received: from there (dialup-1.pasa.apana.org.au [203.14.158.130]) by tierzero.apana.org.au (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id g730MGL39351; Sat, 3 Aug 2002 09:52:16 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from bastill@sa.apana.org.au) Message-Id: <200208030022.g730MGL39351@tierzero.apana.org.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Brian Astill Reply-To: bastill@sa.apana.org.au To: "Christopher J. Umina" , FreeBSD Question Mailing List Subject: Re: Editor for Word files Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2002 09:58:36 +0930 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] References: <20020802174119.X46138-100000@216-164-225-145.c3-0.wth-ubr2.sbo-wth.ma.cable.rcn.com> In-Reply-To: <20020802174119.X46138-100000@216-164-225-145.c3-0.wth-ubr2.sbo-wth.ma.cable.rcn.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 Sat, 3 Aug 2002 07:12, Christopher J. Umina wrote: > Hello, > > Anybody know of a text based editor that I can just view and/or > edit Microsoft Word documents? There can be no such thing, as M$ docs are not plain text. Perhaps you mean a console-based M$ Word editor? I don't know of one. However, any text editor (le, vi, emacs ... etc) can read .doc files. You simply have to remove the Word crud to and bottom and edit the text as you wish. You finish up with an edited TEXT file, though, which mght not be what you want. -- Regards, Brian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message