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
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
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.)
--
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
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
