On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 05:12:21PM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * Matt Price ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031219 16:52]: > > A student has sent me a paper as an email attachment. It's an MSWord > > document -- which should be fine, since OOo and AbiWord and KWord all > > open MS docs -- but it comes from a Mac, I'm assuming a pre-osX mac. > > Mutt tells me it's of type: > > application/x-macbinary > > what does 'file' say?
ah, didn't know this trick: [EMAIL PROTECTED]<505>/home/matt]$ file nature nature: MacBinary III data with surprising version number > > There are a number of packages which can encode/decode common mac > encodings. ISTR having luck with tools from the 'macutils' package. gaah! talk about lousy documentation! can't figure out what to do with this package! thanks for the tip, though.... matt > > good times, > Vineet -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
