Re: MSword reader

["Thomas O'Dowd" <tom@example.com>]

On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 01:46:37PM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> >>>>> "Viktor" == Viktor Pavlenko <vp@example.com> writes:
> 
>     Viktor> is there a text editor for Linux to read/edit MS word
>     Viktor> files?  Something light unlike StarOffice?
> 
> I haven't found anything "light" that reads MS Word, let alone writes
> it.
> 
> AbiWord does pretty well, I hear, but that's not all that light.
> Lighter than StarOffice, though.  Nor am I sure it writes Word.

AbiWord is a difficult build but it's pretty okay when you get it
up and running. It uses a library to read the MS docs which is being
separately developed. I can't recall the name of the library, but I
guess since it is there, there must be more readers out there... Speaking
of Abi I must download the latest version one of these days...

"antiword" sounds interesting also although I haven't used it...
http://www.winfield.demon.nl/index.html

Tom.
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