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From: John Utz <spaz@u.washington.edu>
To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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Subject: Re: MSWord docs...
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Hah!

	if u find one, let *all* of us know! I seem to recall a post in
one of the groups i read about the fact that some guy in germany hacked
the file format, and then removed it from his website "by request of
microsoft".

if somebody could do a viewer, then somebody could do a word clone!

On Wed, 19 Mar 1997, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:

> What's the latest technology on previewing MSword stuff under FreeBSD?
> I haven't been keeping up, I'm afraid...  I know we can currently handle
> postscript, pdf and acrobat, but word?  Thanks.
> 
> 					Jordan
> 
> P.S. And no, I don't have a copy of Word for 3.1, so please don't
> even suggest WINE. :-)
> 

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 John Utz	spaz@u.washington.edu
	idiocy is the impulse function in the convolution of life