Surviving in a DOC infested world

[James McNeill]

I've got a great .doc viewer called 'strings|less'. It's never crashed! ;-)

-James

Michael James wrote:

>How do you experienced Linux desktoppers deal with Word documents?
>
>I haven't had a particularly brilliant introduction.
>
>Word document arrives on my brand new linux desktop in with orders,
> "Review this and sign off by 2".
>
>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.
>
>Found abiword, it fires up much more calmly and open the document.
>Prints it even, but munges the tables to contents-of-1-cell-per-line.
>
>So give abiword a point.
>
>Score 2 points for being able to see it and print it as it appears on Windows.
>
>Score 3 for being able to edit it and get it back readable to windows.
>
>Score -1 for crashing out of existence. (OpenOffice)
>
>Score -1 and a bent paperclip if it takes out your Mac with it.
>Which is what I'm used to with Office 98.
>
>I hate DOCs
>michaelj
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