Re: [Fsfe-uk] Health Service departments unable to read AbiWord attachments

[Andrew M.A. Cater]

On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 03:52:45PM +0000, Chris Croughton wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 02:51:46PM +0000, MJ Ray wrote:
> 
> > Chris C wrote:
> > > [...] I don't mind accepting MSWord documents that OO.o can read, the
> > > sender probably doesn't have anything better [...]
> > 
> > Are there versions of MSWord which can output neither RTF nor HTML?
> 
> (In fact, if the person is trying to cooperate I'll do a lot to try to
> accomodate them, including recently attempting to reverse engineer the
> frmat and write an extraction program.  But if they just send me some
> odd format with no explanation I'm not likely to try as hard...)
> 
antiword / unrtf are your friends :)

Andy