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From: andrew clarke <mail@ozzmosis.com>
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On Tue 2010-02-02 16:35:42 UTC-0800, Gary Kline (kline@thought.org) wrote:

> outstanding!  but if abiword can grow wps [thru hook or crook], i might as well
> use abiword....  [?]

I think AbiWord will only read WPS format, not write it.

> pps:  i did try abiword, first, just
> 
> 	% abiword file.wps
> 
> it came up with garbage.  FWIW... .

Strange.  I've viewed WPS files in AbiWord under Ubuntu Linux.  The
FreeBSD port should be practically identical.  Worst case, you could
install Works under DOSBox or WINE, save the file as RTF then open it
in AbiWord.

Regards
Andrew