On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Francisco Borneo wrote:
> Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 23:30:19 -0300
> From: Francisco Borneo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Fwd: Questions
>
> At 18:39 09/04/02 +0100, Alan wrote:
>
> >if you mean can you open .abw documents without having abiword the answer
> >is basically no.
>
> If you want to uninstall aw and retain your files, save them in .rtf,
> delete aw and, maybe, you'll be able to open them in Atlantis, Word,
> Staroffice and so on. I guess...
maybe not StarOffice
they follow the RFT standard exactly, but Microsoft does not follow the
standard (and we chose to follow MS) so it breaks.
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2244
But besides plaintext, Rich Text Format (.rft) is definately your best
bet.
Sincerely
Alan Horkan
http://matrix.netsoc.tcd.ie/~horkana/
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