Quoting Rowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hello all
> Can anyone tell me how to open documents written in MSWord ? Is
> there an OS that can even open it ?
> I am running Mandrake 10.
> I have tried Oowriter but to no avail - it always appears as just lines
> of small squares and some punctuation.
With varying degrees of success these programs purport to be able to do it:-
Abiword http://www.abisource.com/
Kword http://www.koffice.org/kword/
Antiword http://www.winfield.demon.nl/
wvWare http://wvware.sourceforge.net
This last one is very good and forms the basis for some of the others.
Microsoft's own Word document viewer which might run under Wine.
http://office.microsoft.com/Downloads/9798/wdvw9716.aspx
Take care here there are several different Word viewers to cater for the
multiplicity of 'Word' file formats.
As others have said you will need the font ( or something close to it ) which
was used to create the document. Microsoft have released some of the common
fonts which are available from:-
ftp://ftp2.jetstreamgames.co.nz/pub/dist/gentoo/distfiles/
andale32.exe
arial32.exe
arialb32.exe
comic32.exe
courie32.exe
georgi32.exe
impact32.exe
times32.exe
trebuc32.exe
verdan32.exe
webdin32.exe
I'd suggest you use the command line ftp client and use the mget command.
mget *32.exe
That will get all the font files in one hit.
Use Wine or one of the dos emulator programs to extract the font files from
the .exe file. You are bound them all sometime in the future, so it's almost
certainly worth getting then all in one go. Approx 3 Megs.
This page gives a very good overview of Word clones.
http://microsoft.toddverbeek.com/wp.html
Last but not least there is the excellent TextMaker from
http://www.softmaker.de/tmldemo_en.htm
--
Sincerely etc.
Christopher Sawtell
