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Date: Sat, 1 Nov 1997 12:19:25 +0100
From: Stefan Esser <se@FreeBSD.ORG>
To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>,
        "Jamil J. Weatherbee" <jamil@trojanhorse.ml.org>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: BIOS information preservation (was Re: >64MB)
References: <199711010213.TAA15524@usr08.primenet.com> <199711010406.OAA00828@word.smith.net.au>
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On 1997-11-01 14:36 +1030, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> wrote:
> * Terry, I believe you mentioned that some Microsoft Developer package 
>   contained sources for the Word Viewer, or something similar.  Would 
>   there be any chance of crossing this with a Win32-on-unix environment
>   like that from Willows or Bristol to get a FreeBSD Word Viewer?  I'm
>   sick beyond belief of having to find a copy of Word and 2-300 sheets
>   of paper just to read these banal "standard" documents.

The free Wordview binary runs fine under Wine.
I've used it a number of times to read MS-Word
.doc files. But there is no printer support, yet.

Regards, STefan