Re: apple MSWord files

From: Vineet Kumar (vineet_at_doorstop.net)
Date: 12/20/03

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    * Matt Price (matt.price@utoronto.ca) [031219 16:52]:
    > A student has sent me a paper as an email attachment. It's an MSWord
    > document -- which should be fine, since OOo and AbiWord and KWord all
    > open MS docs -- but it comes from a Mac, I'm assuming a pre-osX mac.
    > Mutt tells me it's of type:
    > application/x-macbinary

    what does 'file' say?

    There are a number of packages which can encode/decode common mac
    encodings. ISTR having luck with tools from the 'macutils' package.

    good times,
    Vineet 

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