Re: apple MSWord files
On Mon, 2003-12-22 at 04:50, Matt Price wrote:
> > 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?
Pardon me if this was already brought up. MacBinary is an encoding
format for transferring the complete file (data + resource fork) from
HFS to non-HFS capable systems. The other popular encoding is BinHex.
Did you install the macutils package? It contains macunpack which will
separate out the data and resource fork into two files?
--
Steven Yap <syap@shaw.ca>
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