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Date:      Fri, 14 Feb 1997 01:14:16 +1030 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        rb@gid.co.uk (Bob Bishop)
Cc:        jb@cimlogic.com.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, terry@lambert.org
Subject:   Re: MIME applications for FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <199702131444.BAA19701@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <l03020903af28aac879f3@[194.32.164.2]> from Bob Bishop at "Feb 13, 97 11:32:49 am"

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Bob Bishop stands accused of saying:
> 
> They certainly don't seem to. Maybe reverse engineering is unnecessary:
> WordPad groks Word 6 format, and the source is in among the samples on the
> MSVC4.2 CD.

Hmm!  Not that I'm too enamoured of WordPad, but is this source in anything
like a distributable form?  If someone with a Willows Twin/XPDK license
were to cut a set of binaries, could they distributethem?

> Also 3rd-party converters between Word6 and <what you like> are available
> (and referenced in MS developer materials). Maybe the developers had to pay
> a fat licence fee.

Applixware claims to support MSWord format, and appears to be on a
runout special for US$189 (US$69 student
price). http://www.linuxmall.com

> Bob Bishop              (0118) 977 4017  international code +44 118

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