Re: apple MSWord files
On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 05:12:21PM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote:
> * Matt Price (matt.price@utoronto.ca) [031219 16:52]:
> > A student has sent me a paper as an email attachment. It's an MSWord
> > document -- which should be fine, since OOo and AbiWord and KWord all
> > open MS docs -- but it comes from a Mac, I'm assuming a pre-osX mac.
> > Mutt tells me it's of type:
> > application/x-macbinary
>
> what does 'file' say?
ah, didn't know this trick:
[matt@anarres<505>/home/matt]$ file nature
nature: MacBinary III data with surprising version number
>
> There are a number of packages which can encode/decode common mac
> encodings. ISTR having luck with tools from the 'macutils' package.
gaah! talk about lousy documentation! can't figure out what to do
with this package! thanks for the tip, though....
matt
>
> good times,
> Vineet
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