Very sorry, but these are badexamples. MS Word docs can be converted to text with wvware, or anteword, or catdoc. There are conversion utils for xls as well. You can extract text from pdf even if the security flag is set. StarOffice/OpenOffice native format is xml, so that's also a bad example. Netscape and Opera are browsers and thus don't have a native file format. Oracle is, of course, a database application. I can't imagine there isn'ta way to load these files--but I don't have experience of it. technomage writes: > From: technomage <technomage-hawke@xxxxxxx> > > here's some examples: > > netscape > opera > oracle > staroffice > applixware > openoffice > forte` for java > kylix > and a whole host of others. > > a few of these I have no choice but to work with (how else am I going to read > Microsoft authored .doc files in linux?). > > Mage > > > On Friday 10 October 2003 08:58 pm, BlindTech wrote: > > it depends if what you call work in text mode, just progs written for gui > > or just some apps that won't meaning what?? > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list -- Janina Sajka Email: janina@xxxxxxxxxxx Phone: (202) 408-8175 Director, Technology Research and Development American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) http://www.afb.org Chair, Accessibility Work Group Free Standards Group http://accessibility.freestandards.org _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list