From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 31 02:22:36 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id CAA21934 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 31 Jul 1997 02:22:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sos.freebsd.dk (sos.freebsd.dk [195.8.129.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id CAA21927 for ; Thu, 31 Jul 1997 02:22:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from sos@localhost) by sos.freebsd.dk (8.8.6/8.7.3) id LAA00130; Thu, 31 Jul 1997 11:22:24 +0200 (MEST) From: Søren Schmidt Message-Id: <199707310922.LAA00130@sos.freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: MS Word documents (was: Advice sought on PnP configuration) In-Reply-To: <199707310745.RAA20235@freebie.lemis.com> from Greg Lehey at "Jul 31, 97 05:15:41 pm" To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey) Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 11:22:24 +0200 (MEST) Cc: luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL30 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In reply to Greg Lehey who wrote: > 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. I use StarDivision StarOffice packet, it reads word6 docs and writes it in almost anything, it has a little problems with word7 but it can be used. You then get a nice Office packet as a sideeffect :) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team Even more code to hack -- will it ever end ..