Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 23:42:25 -0700 From: TS Waterman <waterman@ricochet.net> To: Jerry Hicks <jhicks@glenatl.glenayre.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MS-Word formats Message-ID: <199809300642.XAA12375@home> 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>
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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
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