subject:"\[clug\-talk\] clug\-talk Digest, Vol 80, Issue 17"

Re: [clug-talk] clug-talk Digest, Vol 80, Issue 17

2011-07-20 Thread Ralph Boland

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

Re: [clug-talk] clug-talk Digest, Vol 80, Issue 17

2011-07-20 Thread Dafydd Crosby

There's some programs like doc2odt and doc2rtf that you could use I'd recommend converting to ODT since it's an ISO standard :-) -Dafydd On 07/20/2011 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