From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 29 16:19:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA04153 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 16:19:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from laker.net (jet.laker.net [205.245.74.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA04142 for ; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 16:18:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sfriedri@laker.net) Received: from nt (digital-pbi-114.laker.net [208.0.233.14]) by laker.net (8.9.0/8.9.LAKERNET.NO-SPAM.SPAMMERS.AND.RELAYS.WILL.BE.TRACKED.AND.PROSECUTED.) with SMTP id TAA08155; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 19:18:38 -0400 Message-Id: <199809292318.TAA08155@laker.net> From: "Steve Friedrich" To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" , "Jerry Hicks" Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 18:54:16 -0400 Reply-To: "Steve Friedrich" X-Mailer: PMMail 98 Professional (2.01.1600) For Windows NT (4.0.1381;3) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: MS-Word formats Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 29 Sep 1998 16:38:39 -0400, Jerry Hicks wrote: >I don't have Word but am wondering if it suffices to produce RTF >output from FreeBSD and simply name it with the .DOC extension? Don't rename it. Word can read RTF files. You will find, however, that even though Microsoft invented RTF, many of their products do not handle it correctly. You might want to find out about Applixware and StarOffice, too. Unix systems measure "uptime" in years, Winblows measures it in minutes. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message