Re: fixing .txt files sent from a MS$ user

2008-04-04 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 12:29:44PM -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: > On 04/04/2008 10:47 AM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 11:39:55AM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >>My niece sends some of her schoolwork to my wife (e.g. essays) for her > >>to read. First she sent .doc files which

Re: fixing .txt files sent from a MS$ user

2008-04-04 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 06:33:27PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2008-04-04 17:57 +0200, John Hasler wrote: > > > Douglas writes: > >> My niece sends some of her schoolwork to my wife (e.g. essays) for her to > >> read. First she sent .doc files which I can't access properly (no, I do > >> no r

Re: fixing .txt files sent from a MS$ user

2008-04-04 Thread Mumia W..
On 04/04/2008 10:47 AM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 11:39:55AM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: My niece sends some of her schoolwork to my wife (e.g. essays) for her to read. First she sent .doc files which I can't access properly (no, I do no run OO) although I could get th

Re: fixing .txt files sent from a MS$ user

2008-04-04 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > Hello all, > > My niece sends some of her schoolwork to my wife (e.g. essays) for her > to read. First she sent .doc files which I can't access properly (no, I > do no run OO) although I could get the jist. I then suggested that she > send plain text. > > I don't run

Re: fixing .txt files sent from a MS$ user

2008-04-04 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-04-04 17:57 +0200, John Hasler wrote: > Douglas writes: >> My niece sends some of her schoolwork to my wife (e.g. essays) for her to >> read. First she sent .doc files which I can't access properly (no, I do >> no run OO) > > Try Abiword. s/b/nt/ :-) No complex library dependencies, no

Re: fixing .txt files sent from a MS$ user

2008-04-04 Thread John Hasler
Douglas writes: > My niece sends some of her schoolwork to my wife (e.g. essays) for her to > read. First she sent .doc files which I can't access properly (no, I do > no run OO) Try Abiword. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

Re: fixing .txt files sent from a MS$ user

2008-04-04 Thread Nelson Castillo
> Other than writing a python script, can someone give me a simple command > to fix this so that it is not so distracting? Ideally, I'd put it into > an executable file and pipe the file through it on it's way to lpr. > > e.g. > $ cool-writing.txt | antiAJ | lpr -Pepson I use recode. cp coo

Re: fixing .txt files sent from a MS$ user

2008-04-04 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 04:42:28PM +0100, Andr? C?sar de S? wrote: > On 04/04/2008, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > My niece sends some of her schoolwork to my wife (e.g. essays) for her > > to read. First she sent .doc files which I can't access properly (no

Re: fixing .txt files sent from a MS$ user

2008-04-04 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 11:39:55AM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > My niece sends some of her schoolwork to my wife (e.g. essays) for her > to read. First she sent .doc files which I can't access properly (no, I > do no run OO) although I could get the jist. I then suggested that she > send plai

Re: fixing .txt files sent from a MS$ user

2008-04-04 Thread André César de Sá
Use dos2unix. //Megatron On 04/04/2008, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, > > My niece sends some of her schoolwork to my wife (e.g. essays) for her > to read. First she sent .doc files which I can't access properly (no, I > do no run OO) although I could get the jist.

fixing .txt files sent from a MS$ user

2008-04-04 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
Hello all, My niece sends some of her schoolwork to my wife (e.g. essays) for her to read. First she sent .doc files which I can't access properly (no, I do no run OO) although I could get the jist. I then suggested that she send plain text. I don't run any locales but have LANG=C. Her plain-t