Re: digesting of Word files

["Russ W. Urquhart" urqurw@xxxxxxxx]

On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 11:10:26PM +0900, Peter Evans wrote:
> Russ Urquhart:
>
> >also on http://www.fefe.do:80/muttfaq/faq.html.gz
> >
> >They list several word converters, in addition to Star Office.
>
> That's a strange URL. My browser de l'heure announced that it was
> irretrievable. A search on Google for Mutt FAQ found something looking
> similar . . . whose URL was quickly transformed into the one above.
> Anyway, it lists three such converters:
>
> http://word2x.alcom.co.uk/ a utility called Word2x that runs on Linux,
> FreeBSD, OS/2, etc. (not MS-DOS or Windows).
>
> http://www.csn.ul.ie/~caolan/docs/MSWordView.html
> http://www.fe.msk.ru/~vitus/catdoc/
>
> neither of whose servers was in a good mood when I tried it. I'll try
> again later.
>

I was able to access these urls, so maybe they are in a good mood now. For
most of the sites, the focus for these applications is a Linux/Unix flavor.
That being said, most linux/unix apps do provide a way to compile them for
windows, if there isn't a binary already.

The sites also mentioned other avenues such as a viewer for word files from
MS itself.

They also mentioned the open source wordprocessor abiword, and that it also
will read Word files.

I would suggest trying the sites again, and maybe sending some mail to those
administrators asking about the availability of a Dos or Windows port.

Hope this helps,


Russ




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