Re: MS-Word to text conversion?

[Charles Boisvert and Catherine Clinton]

>I told a correspondent I couldn't view MS-Word files, and asked that she
>convert them to plain ascii.  She wrote back to say she couldn't manage
>it.  Was she saying she was lacking in ability, or that MS-word can't
>handle that type of conversion?  I thought it could ...

It can.  That's probably somebody who doesn't know the meqning of "plain
ascii" or why it can't be typed up in word.  If you ask them to "save as
MS-DOS text" that's the name of the option I think.

Charles