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Date:      Tue, 2 Feb 2010 16:35:42 -0800
From:      Gary Kline <kline@thought.org>
To:        andrew clarke <mail@ozzmosis.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: wps to odt?
Message-ID:  <20100203003541.GA25316@thought.org>
In-Reply-To: <20100202222050.GA17868@ozzmosis.com>
References:  <20100202204438.GA24631@thought.org> <20100202222050.GA17868@ozzmosis.com>

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On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 09:20:50AM +1100, andrew clarke wrote:
> On Tue 2010-02-02 12:44:41 UTC-0800, Gary Kline (kline@thought.org) wrote:
> 
> > is there such a converter that sends m$ Works [.wps] to odt?
> 
> AbiWord.
> 
> And a quick-and-dirty shell script to convert all .wps (Microsoft
> Works) word processor files in the current directory to .odt
> (OpenDocument Text):
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> 
> for fn in *.wps; do
>   abiword --to=odt $fn
> done
> 


outstanding!  but if abiword can grow wps [thru hook or crook], i might as well
use abiword....  [?]

gary

ps:  it's nice when there are so many "standards".....  :-|
pps:  i did try abiword, first, just

	% abiword file.wps

it came up with garbage.  FWIW... .




> Regards
> Andrew
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