Re: apple MSWord files

2003-12-22 Thread Steven Yap
On Mon, 2003-12-22 at 04:50, Matt Price 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 a

Re: apple MSWord files

2003-12-22 Thread Matt Price
On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 09:18:12AM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * Dan Griswold ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031220 06:55]: > > 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 AbiWor

Re: apple MSWord files

2003-12-22 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Dan Griswold ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031220 06:55]: > 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 assumin

Re: apple MSWord files

2003-12-22 Thread Matt Price
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,

Re: apple MSWord files

2003-12-21 Thread Joerg Rossdeutscher
Am Sa, den 20.12.2003 schrieb Vineet Kumar um 02:39: > There's also mcvert, if macutils is no good. I had to do this once upon > a time, and I don't remember which actually ended up working. But let > this at least be a message of hope; I did eventually succeed =) IIRC there are also some tools

Re: apple MSWord files

2003-12-20 Thread Dan Griswold
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

Re: apple MSWord files

2003-12-19 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Matt Price ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031219 17:24]: > On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 05:12:21PM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote: > > 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!

Re: apple MSWord files

2003-12-19 Thread Matt Price
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

Re: apple MSWord files

2003-12-19 Thread Vineet Kumar
* 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: > a

apple MSWord files

2003-12-19 Thread Matt Price
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 OpenO