Add(2):SUMMARY: How do YOU deal with WORD-documents coming in per

From: Bernt Christandl <beb_at_mpe.mpg.de>
Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 16:15:42 +0200

Hello managers,

as usual i received many replies on my summary and so i'll send
another addon, but - promised! - this is my last mail on this subject!

Richard Rogers <R.M.Rogers_at_staffs.ac.uk> replied on "simeon":
He is using that mailer, but cannot see it has a WORD-capable mime-addon,
so he thinks, it will "only" spawn an external WORD...
... and so we are, where we have startet...

Gary George <GGeorge_at_edc.gov.ab.ca> said:
>If you have a Wintel box available, Microsoft does have a free reader
>for Word documents available.
But he forgot where it was on their site...

Ed Murphy <Ed.Murphy_at_ussurg.com> said the inso-people have a product
Quick View Plus which they are porting to DU which "can" WORD.
I did not find the time to check out their webpage.
See http://www.inso.com/products/corporate/qvp-corp/html/qvpunix.htm

Vladas Lapinskas <lapinskas_at_mail.iae.lt> said:
>Under Linux you can use WABI as well - Word 6.0 runs even more
>efficient under emulator ;-) I had success using Wine - one more
>non-commercial Windows 3.11 emularor, but WABI works better.

With regards,

Bernt Christandl

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