Re: next step...
On Sat, Aug 09, 2003 at 12:15:47PM -0400, Stephen Gran wrote:
> This one time, at band camp, john stanton said:
> > I believe ABIWORD supports .wpd as well, and has the bonus of being
> > platform independent.
> >
> > John
>
> It may in general, but it definitely wouldn't open the one WP doc I was
> trying to open - my girlfriend got an email from one of her dissertation
> advisors with it attached, and we tried about 5 different apps, until
> kword finally got it right. What a pain. Incidentally, `file` was the
> only utility that could guess the nature of the attachment, as the
> advisor had helpfully given it the extension .s03 for some reason. I
> had previously thought that other programs like Abiword and OpenOffice
> used the magic numbers scheme to try to guess a file type, but in this
> case, they didn't know what to do with it until I changed the extension
> - then they just gave up gracefully.
It seems Abiword supports more modern WordPerfect documents, but that's
not too helpful for my multitude of WP 5.1 for DOS users. :) Still,
it's good to see that free software teams are not ignoring the WP folks.
--
Nathan E. Sandver nathan@sandver.net
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