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List:       freebsd-hackers
Subject:    Re: MS Word documents (was: Advice sought on PnP configuration)
From:       Greg Lehey <grog () lemis ! com>
Date:       1997-07-31 23:33:24
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John S. Dyson writes:
>>
>> I've heard conflicting things about StarOffice.  But it's not what I'm
>> looking for: I'm looking for a program, UNIX-style, which converts MS
>> Word format to something readable.  It could, for example, be used to
>> read MS Word mail attachments.
>>
>> Greg
>>
> Have you heard of laola???
>
> It can pull apart the directory structure
> of the MS file format.  The ascii text is still rough, but is alot
> better than the original file:
>
> http://wwwwbs.cs.tu-berlin.de/~schwartz/pmh/laola.html

Thanks, yes, now I have.  I got a private reply to this question
pointing me to the URL.

Greg

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