You can tell the "Prof" in class to convert the ms-word files to text. I would assume someone with the brains to become a professor has the minimum amount of smarts to convert a file. Janina knows about reading PDF files. I believe we should be telling purveyors of PDF to include TXT or HTML files of the same materials. maybe they will get the message? Well, maybe not. Guess I have to convert the message to PDF first? Grin. -- charlie. At 12:06 AM 03/16/2003 -0700, you wrote: >Hello all, >A couple of questions. Is there any way to read a word document in Linux? >Yes I know it's a propriotary format, but that's what my prof in class >is using. Second, is there a way to read a PDF? > >-- >Joseph C. Lininger >jbahm at pcdesk.net > > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup