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From: Anselm Lingnau <lingnau@tm.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Historic Opportunity facing Free Unix (was Re: The Lai/Baker paper, benchmarks, and the world of free UNIX)
Date: 3 May 1996 11:48:20 +0200
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In article <4mb38b$680@solaria.cc.gatech.edu>,
Byron A Jeff <byron@cc.gatech.edu> wrote:

> Pray tell: How do you do that conversion without booting up Windows? To use
> word 6 to do the conversion is self defeating. I don't have Windows nor
> Word 6 but I get quite a few Word 6 attachments. What do I do then?

If you have old documents in Word 6 format, chances are you also have
Word 6 to convert them to ASCII or RTF or whatever, as needed.

If somebody sends you a Word 6 attachment, bounce it right back where
it came from and ask them to save it as ASCII or RTF for you instead.

Anselm
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Anselm Lingnau ......................... lingnau@tm.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de
You've never seen a picture of `a picture is worth a thousand words.' It takes
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