From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/15783 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai Grossjohann Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: application/msword [was: Re: gnus-uu-post-insert-binary-in-article is not correct] Date: 31 Jul 1998 12:29:59 +0200 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <87iukegvo8.fsf@slowfox.do.uunet.de> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.106) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035154760 24031 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:59:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:59:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Jochen_Hayek@acm.org, ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: from gwyn.tux.org (gwyn.tux.org [207.96.122.8]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id EAA29671 for ; Fri, 31 Jul 1998 04:38:59 -0700 Original-Received: from gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (gizmo.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.102.31]) by gwyn.tux.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA21531 for ; Fri, 31 Jul 1998 07:34:44 -0400 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (sina.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.3.5]) by gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAT17492; Fri, 31 Jul 1998 06:05:52 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 31 Jul 1998 06:31:57 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [209.195.19.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAA19388 for ; Fri, 31 Jul 1998 06:31:47 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from waldorf.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (waldorf.informatik.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.4.42]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA27581 for ; Fri, 31 Jul 1998 07:31:32 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from ramses.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (ramses.informatik.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.20.180]) by waldorf.informatik.uni-dortmund.de with SMTP id NAA08410; Fri, 31 Jul 1998 13:31:21 +0200 (MES) Original-Received: by ramses.informatik.uni-dortmund.de id NAA10843; Fri, 31 Jul 1998 13:31:19 +0200 Original-To: François Pinard In-Reply-To: François Pinard's message of "30 Jul 1998 18:46:33 -0400" X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.27/Emacs 20.2 Original-Lines: 19 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:15783 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:15783 >>>>> François Pinard writes: > So, for those few reasons, I'm now ready and willing to face the > sad reality! Is there any filter or tool, which *I* could run on > Unix/Linux, available in source form (of course), allowing me to > somewhat handle such documents, when they happen to come and > pollute my Gnus mailgroups? Are such files' intimate format > (Word, Wordperfect, and others) documented somewhere? Isn't there a version of Wordperfect for SCO Unix? And isn't there an SCO emulation for Linux? That would be a way, wouldn't it? Also, there is StarOffice which sort of can read Word 6 and Word 7 (Office 95) files but not Word 8 (Office 98). Good luck, kai -- Abort this operation? [Abort] [Cancel]