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Re: apple MSWord files



* 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?

There are a number of packages which can encode/decode common mac
encodings.  ISTR having luck with tools from the 'macutils' package.

good times,
Vineet
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