Re: wordview

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It's the one I meant. Sorry I didn't answer before. Too much going on.

PS: If you get it all tweaked correctly, you can have Word attachments automatically translated into text for display while you're reading mail. It's a
matter of entries in the mime.types and mailcap files. the wvware docs should be helpful.

I forget, but I think you run Red Hat. On my Red Hat systems, this isn't set up automatically. In Debian it was, and that was a joy.

Now, if I could figure out how to get PDF to work the same way! <grin>

Good luck.

Lee Maschmeyer writes:
> From: Lee Maschmeyer <Lee_Maschmeyer@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Like many others, I receive many emails with MS-Word attachments. Sage
> advice from this group has traditionally been to inform such
> correspondents that this is unacceptable practice, but since the senders
> include not only my boss but people from the university president on
> down, such an approach lacks a certain finesse.
> 
> Not long ago someone off-list mentioned using wordview. I asked what it
> was and where to get it, but while awaiting a response I did a Google
> search. One thing I found was wvWare, a successor of a previous program
> whose name was too close for comfort to Microsoft's.
> 
> This looked promising, but when I read the release notes, they were so
> disparaging (this is a work in progress and subject to radical change,
> etc.) I figured I'd ask whether this is the best product for reading
> Word docs on Linux.
> 
> Thanks for any advice,
> 
> Lee
> 
> 
> 
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