gabriel rosenkoetter on Wed, 8 May 2002 17:28:08 -0400


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Re: [PLUG] AbiWord 1.0.1 Released


On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 04:57:54PM -0400, Paul wrote:
> I skimmed it.  This utility is good for examining the content of a
> file, but it is a lower level utility than what I am looking for.
> 
> I found a WordPerfect file viewer that runs through a Web browser.  I
> think it's for Windows only.  Not good.
> 
> The three options that I'm looking at are not desirable.  Get WP for
> Linux, have the user convert to Word format, or convert to PDF.

I think you may be missing the unstated point I've been trying to
make.

Why do you actually need to read this document as a WordPerfect
document? (The only reason I can think of is that you're editing it
and returning it, in which case it's perfectly reasonable of you to
ask this person for a document in a format you can read.)

If all you're doing is reading the content of the document, and
barring that's being largely graphical figures, strings(1) can give
you what you need.

-- 
gabriel rosenkoetter
gr@eclipsed.net

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