Re: OFF-TOPIC! -- MS Word DOC files without any MSware

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Peter Evans wrote:
>
> Here's a tidbit I found on another list, about StarOffice (for Linux),
> which I believe has just about all of MS Office's unattractions (plus
> plenty of its own) but which comes at a more attractive price:
>
> > I'm finding with star office that i can open my word
> > .doc files (in english of course) and vice versa,
> > though Star office warns me about saving them
> > that way.

I've tried this. The document will OPEN...i.e., it won't crash XyW.
However, I see only gobbledy-gook. And I don't mean gobbledy-gook I
could edit out before and after chunks of text; I mean there's a little
bit of g-g...then nothing!!! The text must be somehow embedded after
some code that's not recognizable at all to XyW.

Steve Lelchuk
Principal Secretary		User Services Specialist
Minnesota Center for		Department of Philosophy
 Philosophy of Science		University of Minnesota
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