From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 3 01:32:58 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 649821065672 for ; Wed, 3 Feb 2010 01:32:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mike.jeays@rogers.com) Received: from smtp116.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com (smtp116.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com [68.142.225.232]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 227E68FC17 for ; Wed, 3 Feb 2010 01:32:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 7686 invoked from network); 3 Feb 2010 01:32:57 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=rogers.com; h=Received:X-Yahoo-SMTP:X-YMail-OSG:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:From:To:Subject:Date:User-Agent:References:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Disposition:Message-Id; b=guO5wNn5Z0YTKVUwHE0NbQ1RGbKk9t9bwQHoflpTqKUKLeQqX7k+AbIprgMo9g1nCCihIGAA/2KRlpcMuHv6mI9PekHZk6ttrTLgKsk3IZop/hyG9r/WnbU3Jx2/tqK4MhSZIC+a7uetFbGmx2fcDPK/g1IJjeuqUaHdumpqris= ; Received: from CPE0018027b43e0-CM0014e88f61fe.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com (mike.jeays@99.224.61.141 with plain) by smtp116.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 02 Feb 2010 17:32:57 -0800 PST X-Yahoo-SMTP: N82WFx6swBBjwcHWPFR2CGt6udzA8RPrA.xm0enFFXaK2g-- X-YMail-OSG: Q.R6LFwVM1lU_.t3rS6.6oqrzFk.dHC59sx3FLsRKEbmcNPz.wHnzYbTidgBuAVd2Q-- X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 From: Mike Jeays To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 20:32:55 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.2 (Linux/2.6.28-15-generic; KDE/4.2.2; i686; ; ) References: <20100202204438.GA24631@thought.org> <20100202222050.GA17868@ozzmosis.com> <20100203003541.GA25316@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20100203003541.GA25316@thought.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <201002022032.55604.mike.jeays@rogers.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 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 01:32:58 -0000 On February 2, 2010 07:35:42 pm Gary Kline wrote: > 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" Abiword can also read '.docx' files.