Re: Reading Word format files?
I'm running the stock abiword 0.7.4-1 Debian package on potato and it
shows the following "open file as" options:
automatically detected, .abw, .rtf, .doc
Save as does not show .doc as an option, however, so it will not write
doc files, but reads them fine.
Bob
On Sat, Sep 11, 1999 at 09:30:04AM +0200, Johann Spies wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, Bob Nielsen wrote:
>
> > Abiword (at least the version in potato) seems to handle this just fine
> > (also .rtf).
>
> In reaction to this message I have downloaded the potato source and
> compiled it (after having some problems with bugs in the source package)
> but it does not read .doc files. It also does not give msword as one of
> the options under the "save as" menu. Only .abw, .rtf, .txt and .html are
> supported. A few tries to load .doc files all failed.
>
> Johann.
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