Re: Reading Word format files?

[Johann Spies <jhspies@futurenet.co.za>]

On Sat, 11 Sep 1999, Bob Nielsen wrote:

> I'm running the stock abiword 0.7.4-1 Debian package on potato and it
> shows the following "open file as" options:
> 
> automatically detected, .abw, .rtf, .doc
> 
> Save as does not show .doc as an option, however, so it will not write
> doc files, but reads them fine.  

I found a debian package of abiword on their home page. After downloading
and installing it as well as installing abi-fonts from potato (which
conflicted with abiword 0.7.4-1) I can also now read .doc files.

Thanks for the information. Now I don't have to start Wordperfect or
Staroffice if I want to read a .doc file.

Johann.


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