From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 3 00:35:46 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CEF8106566C for ; Wed, 3 Feb 2010 00:35:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from ethic.thought.org (plato.thought.org [209.180.213.209]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDF658FC18 for ; Wed, 3 Feb 2010 00:35:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from thought.org (tao.thought.org [10.47.0.250]) (authenticated bits=0) by ethic.thought.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o130ZgTg016742; Tue, 2 Feb 2010 16:35:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: by thought.org (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1002 kline@thought.org; Tue, 2 Feb 2010 16:35:42 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 16:35:42 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: andrew clarke Message-ID: <20100203003541.GA25316@thought.org> References: <20100202204438.GA24631@thought.org> <20100202222050.GA17868@ozzmosis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100202222050.GA17868@ozzmosis.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 23 years of service to the Unix community. X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.6 required=3.6 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, FH_DATE_PAST_20XX,J_CHICKENPOX_43 autolearn=no version=3.2.5 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on ethic.thought.org Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: wps to odt? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:35:46 -0000 On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 09:20:50AM +1100, andrew clarke wrote: > 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 > outstanding! but if abiword can grow wps [thru hook or crook], i might as well use abiword.... [?] gary ps: it's nice when there are so many "standards"..... :-| pps: i did try abiword, first, just % abiword file.wps it came up with garbage. FWIW... . > Regards > Andrew > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 7.79a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php