From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 29 23:41:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA05851 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 23:41:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from rgate.ricochet.net (rgate.ricochet.net [204.179.143.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA05833 for ; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 23:41:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from waterman@ricochet.net) Received: from home (mg136-058.ricochet.net [204.179.136.58]) by rgate.ricochet.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA22870; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 01:40:43 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by home (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA12375; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 23:42:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from waterman@home) Message-Id: <199809300642.XAA12375@home> To: Jerry Hicks cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MS-Word formats In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 29 Sep 1998 16:38:39 EDT." <199809292038.QAA00318@jhicks.glenatl.glenayre.com> References: <199809292038.QAA00318@jhicks.glenatl.glenayre.com> Reply-To: waterman@acm.org Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 23:42:25 -0700 From: TS Waterman Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jerry Hicks writes: > >Usually the subject is how to read these from FreeBSD. I'm searching >for a way of doing the opposite, that is producing a .DOC file usable >by MS-Word. > >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? I'm quite sure that you can make an RTF file, and give it a ".rtf" extension. That works fine. I've done it many a time. I think Word'll get confused if you give it a .doc tag without it really being a .doc file. --ts didn't this type-by-extension idea go out 25 years ago? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message