[GLLUG] Re: Something that can open .doc files

[Felicia Berryman]

Hi,

I use mswordview on my Debian machine to automatically convert .doc
files to html when I click on them in Netscape Communicator.  I changed
the preferences under Navigator -> Application so that when I click on a
.doc file, the following command is executed:

mswordview -w 1 %s -o temp.html

It converts the .doc to temp.html and then automatically opens it in a
navigator window.  This works well enough to read what people are trying
send you, but sometimes the formatting doesn't convert nicely.

Felicia


Adam McDougall wrote:
> 
> 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.
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Felicia Berryman
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