From: Caolan McNamara (caolan at domain csn.ul.ie)
Date: Wed 06 Jun 2001 - 12:31:17 IST
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 10:44:27AM +0100, Caolan McNamara wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 10:19:56AM +0100, John A. Kinsella wrote:
> > Hi.
> > Not OT, I hope.
> > I've recently had problems reading (with Abiword) MS Word docs emailed to
> > me. Abiword tells me doc is "bogus". Star Office & Corel Word Perfect also
> > fail to read them. (Tho Caolan McNamara's word2text converts them ok.)
>
> abiword's import filter *is* wv so if it works in one, it really should
> work in the other, unless word2text is a script that does additional
> mime extraction from a given input before passing it on. I'd be
> interested in a copy of the document to confirm that its mimed or some
> additional layer is around the true document, or if there is something
> actually up with the document which causes SO to fail.
Just to follow up on this document. Its actually in a wrapper alright,
"file problem.doc" gives "Transport Neutral Encapsulation Format" this
is yet another microsoft thing. So get a decoder for it from
http://freshmeat.net/projects/tnef/ and the tnef problem.doc will create
success.doc and off you go then that one works fine.
C.
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