Re: apple MSWord files

From: Matt Price (matt.price_at_utoronto.ca)
Date: 12/20/03

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    Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 20:23:51 -0500
To: debian users <debian-user@lists.debian.org>

    On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 05:12:21PM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote:
    > * 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?

    ah, didn't know this trick:

    [matt@anarres<505>/home/matt]$ file nature
    nature: MacBinary III data with surprising version number

    >

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

    gaah! talk about lousy documentation! can't figure out what to do
    with this package! thanks for the tip, though....

    matt

    >
    > good times,
    > Vineet 

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