From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 12 13:06:04 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA11159 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 13:06:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from corp.au.triax.com (slwag2p01.ozemail.com.au [203.108.157.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA11092 for ; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 13:06:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jim@corp.au.triax.com) Received: from localhost (jim@localhost) by corp.au.triax.com (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id IAA00981; Wed, 13 Jan 1999 08:05:13 +1100 (EST) Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 08:05:13 +1100 (EST) From: Jim Mock To: Greg Black cc: 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 On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, Greg Black wrote: > Is there anything in the BSD world that I can use to read files > produced with Microsoft Word? > The port of word2x will convert Word 6 docs to either text or LaTeX.. it's in /usr/ports/textproc/word2x. I think that WordPerfect8 can read Word97 .doc files.. I haven't tried it myself because I've finally complained to people long enough that they just send me plain text =) -- : Jim Mock | [jim@corp.au.triax.com] : : System Administrator | http://www.triax.com/ : : Triax Internet Services | ----------------------------- : : Portland, OR USA | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve : : Wagga Wagga, NSW Australia | http://www.freebsd.org/ : To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message