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Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:

> What technique do people use to open these nasty word *.doc files?
> I mean besides threatening to shoot the sender...

 bmork@rasputin:~$ grep word .mailcap
 application/msword;catdoc %s;copiousoutput

Works OK most of the time, and makes it really easy to answer a
MS Word mail as plain text with proper quoting.


Bjørn
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You foul intellectual fascist!