Robin Laing wrote: > James Knott wrote: >> John Thompson wrote: >> >>> On 2006-10-11, James Knott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> >>>> John Thompson wrote: >>>> >>>>> On 2006-10-05, James Knott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> OO can read, but not write, Word Perfect files. However, StarOffice, >>>>>> the commercial version of OO can write them as well. >>>>> >>>>> But only on Windows, as far as I can tell. OOo-2.0.3-7 and >>>>> StarOffice-8.0.3-7 running on linux here show no import or export >>>>> filters for Word Perfect documents. >>> >>>> What's the WPS import filter for? >>> >>> Beats me. I don't have one. >> >> >> Unless I'm mistaken (yes, that has actually happened a couple of times. >> ;-) ), it's for importing Word Perfect files. I haven't tried it >> though. I'm surprised you don't have such a filter. > > Possible install option? > > When I first installed Word on a Windows machine years ago, none of the > import filters for Wordperfect were installed by default. Most of the > files I had were WP related so I was SOL. > > Installing the filters were a pain as we had different versions of our > corporate Office that couldn't install from just any CD. >
I have never installed any filters. They're just there. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
