From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 31 00:45:56 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA13749 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 31 Jul 1997 00:45:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA13739 for ; Thu, 31 Jul 1997 00:45:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (gregl1.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.133]) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA27114; Thu, 31 Jul 1997 17:15:44 +0930 (CST) From: Greg Lehey Received: (grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.6/8.6.12) id RAA20235; Thu, 31 Jul 1997 17:15:42 +0930 (CST) Message-Id: <199707310745.RAA20235@freebie.lemis.com> Subject: MS Word documents (was: Advice sought on PnP configuration) In-Reply-To: <199707310500.HAA05164@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> from Luigi Rizzo at "Jul 31, 97 07:00:37 am" To: luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it (Luigi Rizzo) Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 17:15:41 +0930 (CST) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Hackers) Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8250 Fax: +61-8-8388-8250 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Luigi Rizzo writes: >> >> Save yourself some money, and start with (shudder) >> http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/ > > too bad they only have MS Word documents (what would you expect!) Has anybody investigated what it would take to convert MS Word to a portable format? So much stuff is sent in it nowadays, even by people who should know better. Is it that difficult? If somebody can point me to some format documentation, I'm prepared to have a hack at it. Greg