Re: MS Word editor?
On Wed, 4 Oct 2000 11:54:37 -0700 "Patrick R. Wade" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 04:32:46PM -0700, Lindsay Crawford wrote: Is there anything in the standard Mandrake set capable of reading a MS Word document? strings word.doc | less will give you the plain text elements of the Word file, which is often enough to puzzle out the sender's intent. For added fun, since most Word users employ the "fast save" feature, what you get is really like a RCS log of various editions of the document! If you've gotten, for example, a "personalized" spam, you can see who else had personalized versions prepared. Great! Thanks! Now how do I use this? The file is an attachment to a message currently in a Kmail folder. If I click on the attachment icon, "KFM trying to open" pops up, followed by "KFM2 select a browser. I would like to use strings word.doc | less if only I knew how. Baby steps. Thanks for your patience. Lindsay 02:50 PDT Thursday 5 October 2000 @97478
Re: MS Word editor?
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 02:56:02AM -0700, Lindsay Crawford wrote: Great! Thanks! Now how do I use this? The file is an attachment to a message currently in a Kmail folder. If I click on the attachment icon, "KFM trying to open" pops up, followed by "KFM2 select a browser. I would like to use strings word.doc | less if only I knew how. I would probably do something like this: 1. start up KMail and go to the message that has the attachment 2. open up a Konsole window 3. Either: a.) save the attachment into your home directory ; or b.) find out the path to the attachment (something like /home/you/kmailbox/message1.word.doc, i'm not sure how KMail stores its files) 4. in the Konsole window, give the command strings /path/to/word.doc | less -- It's a hard work, being a network pusher. Your customers beep you in the middle of the night, hungry for another fix. But, what can you do? Customer satisfaction and all that crap... Pays good, though.--Ingvar the Grey, in the Monastery
Re: MS Word editor?
Lindsay Crawford wrote: Is there anything in the standard Mandrake set capable of reading a MS Word document? Netscape does a half-assed job of displaying it. If you read mail with netscape, just click the attachment to open it. (I don't know how to do it without using netscape mail.) -- Kbob [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.jogger-egg.com/
Re: MS Word editor?
Just about any Linux office suite will look at it--Applix, Soffice, Koffice, Abi. Another way is to use the mswordview, which is a plugin for netscape that lets you look at word docs directly with netscape. I'm not sure how well it works, but it's there. Lindsay Crawford wrote: I hope there is an easy answer for this one. Recently I received an attachment in MS Word. I found one editor in "applications" called Advanced which would give me some of the text but would not handle the document as it should be. Is there anything in the standard Mandrake set capable of reading a MS Word document? Lindsay 16:30 PDT Tuesday 3 October 2000 @97478
MS Word editor?
I hope there is an easy answer for this one. Recently I received an attachment in MS Word. I found one editor in "applications" called Advanced which would give me some of the text but would not handle the document as it should be. Is there anything in the standard Mandrake set capable of reading a MS Word document? Lindsay 16:30 PDT Tuesday 3 October 2000 @97478
