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Re: [Groff] UTP document translation, bloatware, and MS Offfice
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Jim Reid |
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Re: [Groff] UTP document translation, bloatware, and MS Offfice |
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Mon, 26 Aug 2002 23:48:04 +0100 |
>>>>> ">" == =?iso-8859-1?Q?Alejandro L=F3pez-Valencia?= <iso-8859-1> writes:
>> Evidently, to read such documents you need MS Word, OpenOffice,
>> or whatever. If you know of other means to read an MS Word
>> document that doesn't involve the already mentioned
>> applications, please enlighten us all.
Well antiword does a reasonably good job of extracting the text from
these bloated files. [How can a 1 page memo possibly fill 250K or
more?] Personally, I find files in Word format to be a very strong
hint that the contents are worthless and not worth the effort of
reading them. This rule has worked out pretty well so far.
- [Groff] UTP ducoment translation, bloatware, and MS Offfice, Richard Loken, 2002/08/26
- Re: [Groff] UTP ducoment translation, bloatware, and MS Offfice, Jim Reid, 2002/08/26
- Re: [Groff] UTP document translation, bloatware, and MS Offfice, Alejandro López-Valencia, 2002/08/26
- Re: [Groff] UTP document translation, bloatware, and MS Offfice,
Jim Reid <=
- Re: [Groff] UTP document translation, bloatware, and MS Offfice, Richard Loken, 2002/08/26
- Re: [Groff] UTP document translation, bloatware, and MS Offfice, Peter Schaffter, 2002/08/26
- Re: [Groff] UTP document translation, bloatware, and MS Offfice, Stewart Russell, 2002/08/27
- Re: [Groff] UTP document translation, bloatware, and MS Offfice, Larry Kollar, 2002/08/29
- Re: [Groff] UTP ducoment translation, bloatware, and MS Offfice, Larry Kollar, 2002/08/28