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To: Stefan Esser <se@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: MSWord docs... 
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How does that help with word95 and the office 97 stuff..
Most windows machines shipped today do not ship with word6.x.

Stefan Esser writes:
> On Mar 19, John Utz <spaz@u.washington.edu> wrote:
> > 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".
> 
> Sure, a Word viewer DOES exist ...
> It is even published by Microsoft, and
> available from their FTP server.
> 
> I've tested it under Wine, and it does
> nicely display the USB/HCI spec (which
> is more than 100 pages long).
> 
> The program is available as a compressed
> archive (self-installing) under the name
> "wrd6view.exe". There is a Win95 version,
> too, but it does not (yet) run under Wine.
> 
> Regards, STefan