Surviving in a DOC infested world

[Daniel Smith]

> The word that generated it was recent, Office 2000 or XP.
> 
> Fired up OpenOffice,
>  didn't think running off the net would work for a standalone workstation,
>  couldn't figure why I needed 200Meg of files dumped in my home dir either
>  but what the heck, loaded them up.
> Opened doc, OO declairs an irremedial error
>  and segfaults itself out of existence.
> Try again, same problem. Don't have another (gentler) doc.

Urk.

I'm guessing this is the Fast/Auto Save gremlin. Sometimes Word can't even
figure out what it meant on a different machine.

You are sending in a bug report, right?

Options in order of preference.

wvWare: Converts word documents to RTF, HTML, TeX.
	Command line based.
	OO should handle it's output.
	http://www.wvware.com/

wine and the freely downloadable MSWord viewer.
	http://www.microsoft.com/office/000/viewers.asp
	Word XP and 2000 have the same file format AFAIR.
	but this only allows you to read and print, not edit.

And if this is a regular annoyance, well Codeweavers are cheaper
than vmWare (or a Windows licence!). 
	http://www.codeweavers.com/products/office/

If you feel nasty, send them back their document as postscript. :-)

Daniel