Something that can open .doc files

[Adam McDougall]

On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 10:23:24PM -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote:

  Mike Szumlinski <szumlins@msu.edu> writes:
  
  > I just moved my G4 home from work because I found it much more useful
  > there. That leaves me with nothing but my FreeBSD desktop as my work
  > machine now. Anyone know anything that is an easy port install that can
  > open office files? I dont' care about being able to save back to them,
  > just to open attachments and the like from bosses and stuff.
  
  Debian has: abiword, wv, antiword, catdoc, ted (for RTF),
  siagoffice, and word2x.  Try one of those.

For FreeBSD ports, see these:
 
/usr/ports/editors/staroffice52
/usr/ports/editors/staroffice60
/usr/ports/editors/AbiWord
/usr/ports/textproc/wv
/usr/ports/textproc/catdoc
/usr/ports/converters/tnef
/usr/ports/editors/ted
/usr/ports/math/siag
/usr/ports/textproc/word2x
 
and others in textproc may be useful.
 
HTML Indices available at
http://www.freebsd.org/ports/textproc.html
http://www.freebsd.org/ports/editors.html
 
or just http://www.freebsd.org/ports/ to try 
searching for "Word", etc. 

Thanks for the specifics Ben.