[plug] reading word documents

[hooli]

On Wednesday 17 January 2001 15:56, The Thought Assassin wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Bret Busby wrote:
> > 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".
>
> <Snipped tales of woe>
>
> > Personally, I just use Star Office...
>
> Didn't seem worth downloading and installing such a behemoth in order to
> convert 5 small word files. In hindsight, I think if I'd known I'd bring X
> to its knees, the vw route wouldn't have seemed worth it, either. :)
>
> -Greg

KDE2's kword works enough to view and save as - with an intermittant segfault 
on closure.

Jason