On Friday 28 Jan 2005 20:51, Ryan Sommers wrote:
> G. Roderick Singleton said:
> > On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 10:05 -0700, Ryan Sommers wrote:
> >> Is it possible to open Word 2.0 files in OOo? Or how can I convert them
> >> to
> >> something it can open?
> >
> > No OOo does not import Word2 files. THis is stated in product info
> > somewhere. Save them as RTF.
>
> The problem is some program one of our customers uses to generate orders
> seems to save them in Word 2.0 format. I'm attempting to find some way to
> convert them to a format OOo can understand. However, so far I haven't
> come up with anything. Which unfortauntely might mean that we will not be
> free from the MS Office Suite.

If you only want to read the text (which I know is a poor substitute for 
opening a formatted file) then this command on a unix box:

string whatever.doc

Should extract the text. There may be a Windows equivalent, or Cygwin would 
also do.

-- 
Jim

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