[Techtalk] What do you all think?

[Telsa Gwynne]

On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 08:25:21PM +0100 or thereabouts, Rebecca J. Walter wrote:
> re word docs on linux..
> i heard rumors that ms was getting bitchy about things like staroffice
> that could read their files and were pressing some kind of patent or
> copyright issues.
> 
> also i have heard there is a script for converting word docs to
> something else, but i forget what it is called.  someone else might be
> able to think of it (antiword comes to mind)

wv?

it started as mswordview, became wv and now seems to be wvware.

Caolan Macnamara started it, I think. I believe it's the basis for
how Abiword reads .doc format files. Or was at one stage.

http://www.wvware.com/index.html

Telsa