From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 12 13:04:12 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA10739 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 13:04:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from guru.phone.net (guru.phone.net [209.157.82.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA10734 for ; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 13:04:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwm@phone.net) Received: (qmail 12616 invoked by uid 100); 12 Jan 1999 21:03:37 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 12 Jan 1999 21:03:37 -0000 Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 13:03:37 -0800 (PST) From: Mike Meyer To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MS-Word viewer In-Reply-To: <19990112205358.28182.qmail@alice.gba.oz.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG WordPerfect 8 works for many things. Note that MS-Word writes documents in an (officially) undocumented, proprietary format. This means that probably nothing but MS-Word will work properly on every document, and the next version of MS-Word will probably add more write options that make things fail in strange ways. Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 06:53:57 +1000 > From: Greg Black > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: MS-Word viewer > > Is there anything in the BSD world that I can use to read files > produced with Microsoft Word? > > -- > Greg Black > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message