[ale] ms works file

[James P. Kinney III]

Works is an abomination. Even M$ has a hard time with those files. It is
possible to convert, using M$ Works itself, a text document to a .doc
file that MS Word can open. Then OOo can open it as well.

As far as reading a native .wps file, Abiword is your best bet.

Later versions of works include a crippled version of Word that write
broken .doc files.  Word has a special process for opening those .doc
files (it takes longer). Then an edited file from MS Word in Office can
no longer be opened by Word in Works.

I look forward to the day when that crappy company is bankrupt from
loosing lawsuits for defective products.

On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 16:26, michael d. ivey wrote:
> Anyone know of Linux software to convert MS Works .wps file into
> something OO.o can read?
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