On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 11:50:04AM -0500, Jan Schaumann wrote:

 > > None of those are useful for dealing with MS Word, Excel, etc. documents.
 > 
 > gnumeric reads excel to some extent, abiword reads _some_ MS Word.
 > 
 > > "Some of us have to do that, you know."
 > 
 > antiword(1) is my favorite for that purpose.  Others even go as far as
 > strings(1).

The problem is that:

	(1) None of these are sufficient for the needs of a great many
	    people who run Unix but have to exchange documents with
	    people who don't.

	(2) If NetBSD is ever going to compete in the desktop arena,
	    a well-integrated package (like OpenOffice) is needed.

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>