On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 08:39:17AM -0500, Dan Griswold wrote: > 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 > ... I think I'm gonna go with this strategy myself...
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