Subject: Re: AbiWord vs. WordPad
From: Hubert Figuiere (hfiguiere@teaser.fr)
Date: Fri Mar 24 2000 - 04:58:47 CST
According to Caolan McNamara <cmc@stardivision.de>:
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
>
> > - handle Windows Write (.wri) documents
>
> Well as far as I know I suspect that the .wri format is a cut down
> word 6 format,
Nope. It is a cut down MS-Word format as WRI come back from MS-DOS days as
there was NO word processor under Windows 3.0. But yes it is the same family.
> It might be easy to modify wv to handle .wri as well,
> if not there was the beginnings of a wri2xml filter at
> http://arturo.directmail.org/filtersweb/wri2xml.html
I was not aware of this one. I'll give a look and see if I can use it in my
import filter.
> You could ask him for source code and see is it similiar to word6 and
> nail it into wv
>
> Also of some possible interest to those working in this area: much of
> microsoft documentation for DevStudio, i.e. the infoviewer help files
> which document the ms file formats for instance, the .ivt format now
> has a linux converter to html. Stuck it together last night. Alpha
> vesion is at http://www.csn.ul.ie/~caolan/publink/ivt2html/
Cool :=)
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