[plug] reading word documents

[Bret Busby]

The Thought Assassin wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Matt Kemner wrote:
> > On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Edward Doernberg wrote:
> > > is ther a linux program that can read word 97 files.
> > If you just want to read them, there is one called "mswordview"...
> 
> Which apparently has now become "wv". Today, while installing wv and
> upgrading all of the x libs this required, I managed to crash fvwm for the
> first time ever, resulting in dpkg terminating halfway through xdm. I'm
> sure you see why this is bad. (well, I mean worse than using xdm in the
> first place. :)
> After 15 minutes of fun with package pools, lynx and gpm, I've got X
> running again, wv appears to depend on a package that doesn't exist,
> (libwmf0.<version>) so it was all a lot of fun for nothing. Bret is
> fortunate he is not posting today. :)
> 
> -G

Hello!

:-p

Personally, I just use Star Office...

;-{p)

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Bret Busby


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