Re: Program to read M$ word and Excel stuff

To: davidw@cks.com (David Welton)
Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Program to read M$ word and Excel stuff
From: csmall@scooter.o.i.net
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 1997 08:43:00 +1000 (EST)
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In-reply-to: <[🔎] Pine.LNX.3.96.971002131900.12173B-100000@heorot.cks.com> from David Welton at "Oct 2, 97 01:21:13 pm"

> Are there any free Debian programs to read these formats?
> 
> Barring that, what commercial ones exist?
There is Star Office and Applixware.  Star Office is free-ish, Applixware is
commercial.  I have also heard of a MS-Word reader somwhere as well.

> Hmmmm I really don't like commercial programs..  is there any kind of spec
> for either of these?  Maybe I'll hack something out in perl to at least
> translate them to something real.
A MS Word to LaTeX converter would be nice.

  - Craig


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