Re: extracting 7_bit_ascii from ms_word files

2007-11-02 Thread spellberg_robert
thanks to everyone for their assistance. thanks, especially, for reports of personal satisfaction with a particular solution. it appears, now, that i had found everything that there is to be found, currently. without the feedback, however, i would not know that. i will give these ideas a

Re: extracting 7_bit_ascii from ms_word files

2007-11-01 Thread John Nielsen
Quoting spellberg_robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: i finally ran into a situation where my existing approaces are no longer satisfactory. i never bought "office". i have a twelve_year_old version of "wordperfect" from [ at that time ] novell that still works just fine [ i first used wordperfect

Re: extracting 7_bit_ascii from ms_word files

2007-10-31 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, if I get you right, you just need something like Abiword or KOffice to read or write Wrod files. You also could use OpenOffice. I think that AbiWord is the smallest program with the most limitations and OpenOffice is the largest program with the least limitations. Install AbiWord and h

Re: extracting 7_bit_ascii from ms_word files

2007-10-31 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 1 Nov 2007, spellberg_robert wrote: my application is to exchange text files, by e_mail, with someone who thinks ms products are the be_all and end_all i am not looking for something wonderful, just reasonably competent and reasonably current. if, in addition to my desired direction

Re: extracting 7_bit_ascii from ms_word files

2007-10-31 Thread Robert Marella
On Thu, 01 Nov 2007 00:29:21 + spellberg_robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > greetings --- > > i finally ran into a situation where >my existing approaces are no longer satisfactory. > > > is this "abiword" one of them or do i seek something else ? > Aloha Rob I have been using abiwor