That must have been quite a while ago. I seem to remember doing it
withing the last year. Some systems are labeled "Productivity stations"
and are setup to allow folks to create MS office docs and save then on
USB or floppy.
Greg
On 11-07-20 08:54 PM, John E. jardine wrote:
Last time I plugged in a USB stick into a library computer they
freaked. They did offer to plug it in somewhere else and make my files
available to my (all?) work-stations. I declined because the USB drive
had all sorts of customer docs that were protected by NDAs.
----- Original message -----
> The public library has relatively current versions of MS Word on their
> systems. You might try taking a few documents on a USB stick and seeing
> if they can be read by Word. If so, you should be able to save as a
> newer version of word or as an RFT.
>
> Greg
>
> On 11-07-20 02:27 AM, Ralph Boland wrote:
> > I have on my Linux (Ubuntu) system several Word 6.0 documents
> > that were created in 1998ish on a Mac.
> >
> > I tried to open them using open office but was shocked :-) to find
that
> > open office could not read them.
> >
> > Can anyone suggest a hopefully inexpensive way for me to be able to
> > read these files?
> >
> > It would also be useful to be able to convert them to a form that
I can
> > view from Linux?
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Rocky Boland
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > clug-talk mailing list
> > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
> > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
> > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php)
> > **Please remove these lines when replying
> >
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> clug-talk mailing list
> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
> http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
> Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php)
> **Please remove these lines when replying
_______________________________________________
clug-talk mailing list
[email protected]
http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php)
**Please remove these lines when replying
_______________________________________________
clug-talk mailing list
[email protected]
http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php)
**Please remove these lines when replying
