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From: Ada T Lim <ada@not-enough.bandwidth.org>
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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"
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> 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.

If you _really_ need to read word files, StarOffice (in the ports collection)
will do in a pinch.

I think there's something out there that converts word to rtf, and I know
there's rtf->html

Ada