Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 03:17:46 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it (Luigi Rizzo), hackers@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD Hackers) Subject: Re: MS Word documents (was: Advice sought on PnP configuration) Message-ID: <199707311017.DAA05496@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 31 Jul 1997 17:15:41 %2B0930." <199707310745.RAA20235@freebie.lemis.com>
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I am pretty sure that StarOffice can read word documents but not word documents from Office97. Cheers, Amancio >From The Desk Of Greg Lehey : > 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 > >
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