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