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Date:      Thu, 31 Jul 1997 11:22:24 +0200 (MEST)
From:      Søren Schmidt <sos@sos.freebsd.dk>
To:        grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey)
Cc:        luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: MS Word documents (was: Advice sought on PnP configuration)
Message-ID:  <199707310922.LAA00130@sos.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: <199707310745.RAA20235@freebie.lemis.com> from Greg Lehey at "Jul 31, 97 05:15:41 pm"

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In reply to Greg Lehey who wrote:
> Luigi Rizzo writes:
> >>
> >> Save yourself some money, and start with (shudder)
> >> 	http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/
> >
> > too bad they only have MS Word documents (what would you expect!)
> 
> Has anybody investigated what it would take to convert MS Word to a
> portable format?  So much stuff is sent in it nowadays, even by people
> who should know better.  Is it that difficult?  If somebody can point
> me to some format documentation, I'm prepared to have a hack at it.

I use StarDivision StarOffice packet, it reads word6 docs and writes it
in almost anything, it has a little problems with word7 but it can be
used. You then get a nice Office packet as a sideeffect :)


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Søren Schmidt               (sos@FreeBSD.org)               FreeBSD Core Team
                Even more code to hack -- will it ever end
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