Re: apple MSWord files

[Dan Griswold <dgriswol@rochester.rr.com>]

Matt Price <matt.price@utoronto.ca> writes:

> 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
> anyway, I can open the file in OpenOffice, but it's a total mess --
> control characters everywhere, illegible garbage top and bottom, no
> footnotes.

> Is there, then, a general strategy for dealing with these icky MacOS
> files?

I've had this problem, too. I decided that the Linux-based converters
had not been programmed to handle these early Mac formats. My only
solution was to have someone save the file either in a current MSWord
format or in something open or quasi-open, such as HTML or RTF.

Dan

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