Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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 > anyway, I can open the file in OpenOffice, but it's a total mess -- > control characters everywhere, illegible garbage top and bottom, no > footnotes.
> Is there, then, a general strategy for dealing with these icky MacOS > files? I've had this problem, too. I decided that the Linux-based converters had not been programmed to handle these early Mac formats. My only solution was to have someone save the file either in a current MSWord format or in something open or quasi-open, such as HTML or RTF. Dan -- _______________________________ /\ \ \_| Dan Griswold | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | __________________________|_ \_/____________________________/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
