Subject: reading word attachments

From: Leslie Fairall <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2000 19:55:42 -0500 (EST)

Is there a way for me to read Microsoft Word attachments in unix pine? I
don't have and cannot use Microsoft Word at this time, so I can't just
download the file and open it in Word. Any suggestions?

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From: ADAM Sulmicki <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2000 20:02:04 -0500 (EST)

> download the file and open it in Word. Any suggestions?

well, there's StarOffice for linux and solaris. It is free and it will
read MS Word files.

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From: Bob Rasmussen <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2000 16:59:34 -0800 (PST)

> download the file and open it in Word. Any suggestions?

Microsoft has a free Word reader program. Just download and use that.

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From: Scott Leibrand <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2000 17:14:23 -0800 (PST)

> Microsoft has a free Word reader program. Just download and use that.

But that still requires a Windows (or possibly Mac) PC, doesn't it?

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From: "Frederic L. W. Meunier" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2000 22:28:33 -0300 (EST)

If you don't care about the format and just want to read what
they send, try word2x - http://word2x.alcom.co.uk/ and wv -
http://www.wvWare.com/ . I tried word2x once with a contract
and it worked, but failed with other. Since you're a Unix user,
IMO the best way is to convert using tools like those and read
within Pine. StarOffice (a mamuth) should be used only if they
fail.

On 2000-04-01 (Today) at 19:55 -0500, Leslie Fairall typed:

| Is there a way for me to read Microsoft Word attachments in unix pine? I
| don't have and cannot use Microsoft Word at this time, so I can't just
| download the file and open it in Word. Any suggestions?

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From: Stephen Bosch <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2000 18:29:39 -0700 (MST)

> Microsoft has a free Word reader program. Just download and use that.

If this reader works in Unix, I'll eat my hat. Microsoft hates Unix (it
has ever since it sold Xenix to SCO).

-Stephen-

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From: David Dyck <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2000 18:02:27 -0800 (PST)

> download the file and open it in Word. Any suggestions?

You don't say whether you have access to Solaris or not,
but we're using pcv from Sun, and on linux pine, my mailcap
fires off an rsh to a solaris host to display the word/excel/powerpoint...
document on my screen -- works fine most of the time.

We used to use catdoc (and I still do when I'm logged in remotely).
If your desperate, strings will show most of the document.
Another choice would be to ask the sender to mail it to you
in a non-proprietory format (like text).

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From: Leslie Fairall <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2000 04:03:11 -0400 (EDT)

Hi:

Thanks to everyone who responded to me so far. I asked my professor to
mail everything in plain text, but he can't seem to do it. I am using
BSDII (don't know what version) and am dialing into my shell account. Is
there a way to use some of these suggested utilities within pine itself? I
would like to be able to view the Word attachment in pine itself, if
possible.