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From: andrew clarke <mail@ozzmosis.com>
To: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org>
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Subject: Re: wps to odt?
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On Tue 2010-02-02 12:44:41 UTC-0800, Gary Kline (kline@thought.org) wrote:

> is there such a converter that sends m$ Works [.wps] to odt?

AbiWord.

And a quick-and-dirty shell script to convert all .wps (Microsoft
Works) word processor files in the current directory to .odt
(OpenDocument Text):

#!/bin/sh

for fn in *.wps; do
  abiword --to=odt $fn
done

Regards
Andrew