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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!cs.mu.OZ.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!news.dfn.de!zeus.rbi.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de!not-for-mail 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 Organization: FB Informatik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitaet Lines: 18 Sender: lingnau@rigel.tm.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de Message-ID: <4mckp4$34m@rigel.tm.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de> References: <4ki055$60l@Radon.Stanford.EDU> <4m61bv$12q6@news.missouri.edu> <318851BF.4E8724A7@gramercy.ios.com> <4mb38b$680@solaria.cc.gatech.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: rigel.tm.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.system:22893 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:909 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:3633 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:3476 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:18611 comp.os.linux.advocacy:47835 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 -- Anselm Lingnau ......................... lingnau@tm.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de You've never seen a picture of `a picture is worth a thousand words.' It takes words to express that idea, or any idea. --- Michael Swain