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Subject: Re: MS Word documents (was: Advice sought on PnP configuration)
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To: sos@sos.freebsd.dk (Søren Schmidt)
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 08:04:31 +0930 (CST)
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Søren Schmidt writes:
> 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 :)

I've heard conflicting things about StarOffice.  But it's not what I'm
looking for: I'm looking for a program, UNIX-style, which converts MS
Word format to something readable.  It could, for example, be used to
read MS Word mail attachments.

Greg