Re: reading MS word files

On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 09:15:55PM +0100, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote:

I took Word Viewer 2003 from the MS site ("View, print and copy Word
documents, even if you don't have Word installed") and tried to install
it with the version of Wine that is available for Sarge.
Error: "Newer version of Windows needed."

Last time I looked, WINE defaulted to claiming it was Windows 95. You can
configure it to instead claim to be XP.

Then I tried Word Viewer 97-2000, not available from MS any more, but it
does exist in other places, for example:
http://pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,6314-order,1-page,1-c,alldownloads/description.html
Installed and ran it with Wine in Sarge.
And, guess what: it runs great! And very fast!

Great.
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