On Fri, 19 Jun 1998 09:10:10 PDT  Eric McWhorter wrote:

> NetBSD fullfills all requirements for my work that NT fullfills except one.
> I must be able to decode and view ms-word documents sent as email
> attachments.  At this point, I have to boot NT to read email, which is
> wasting a perfectly good 2 gig drive (we're not supposed to install multiple
> OS's on one hard drive here).  This must have been asked a thousand times,
> but I can't find the answer on the web page.  Can someone recommend a means
> of viewing documents spewed by office 97's ms-word?  Does the applix office
> Red Hat Linux port run on NetBSD/i386?

I usually resort to running strings on the document - that gives you
the gist of what's in there...

Simon.