[ale] reading MS Word files

Philip Rodgers p.rodgers at home.com
Sun Apr 18 21:30:24 EDT 1999


staroffice can read msword files
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Philip Rodgers
p.rodgers at home.com

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
                                                Arthur C. Clarke
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----- Original Message -----
 From: Nick Lucent <nlucent at mindspring.com>
To: Ben Phillips <pynk at cc.gatech.edu>
Cc: <ale at ale.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 18, 1999 3:14 PM
Subject: Re: [ale] reading MS Word files


> I think wordview can convert, but I think it might convert to ps, which
> you could then print if you wanted to.
>
> Nick
>
> On Sun, 18 Apr 1999, Ben Phillips wrote:
>
> > Is there an msword-2-text utility out there for linux?  Or something
with
> > equivalent functionality?
> >
> >                       __   _
> > Ben Phillips         /  '_' )         ,,,    "If it's a hobby for us and
a
> > pynk at cc.gatech.edu   |  | ()|||||||||[:::)   job for you, then why are
you
> >                      \__.-._)         '''    doing such a shoddy job?"
> >                               -- Linus Torvalds to Microsoft
> >
>






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