From koffice  Fri Feb 18 15:55:47 2000
From: Werner Trobin <wtrobin () carinthia ! com>
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 15:55:47 +0000
To: koffice
Subject: Re: i may have been too clever by half here
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dep wrote:
> 
> greetings!
> 
> i'm using kde2 and koffice from cvs of 16 february. and i thought i'd
> give kword a spin by using it to work on the outline of a new book. it
> works great except for one thing: i need to send my work to my
> publisher. i figured i'd either save it as a .txt file or copy from
> kword and paste into a plain text editor.
> 
> problem is, edit > select all > copy causes kword to disappear without
> putting anything into the paste buffer. and saving in any format other
> than .kwd produces the same effect. i've looked at the .kwd file in a
> text editor, and whatever kword does, it does it very impressively -- i
> couldn't make heads nor tails of it.

This is a compressed tar file. Just gunzip and untar it :)

> so then, with my apologies for getting myself into this situation -- i
> should have known better -- any way of getting my stuff out of kword so
> i can mail it out?

Normally the *.txt stuff should work, though - I'll look into that.

Werner