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to: ED VANCE
from: PAUL QUINN
date: 2018-07-29 14:50:00
subject: Reading files with MS Ext

Hi! Ed,

On 28 Jul 18 20:06, you wrote to All:

 EV> I was wondering if a program exist in Ubuntu Linux that can read
 EV> text files I saved to disk with a M$ Windows pc using their Wordpad
 EV> program?

I just did a left double-click on one of them thar things lying around and the
file manager doover fired-up Abiword (v3.0.0), showing a real nice, clean, view
of the doc. Note that Xubuntu is my preferred GUI, BTW.

what does yours do?

 EV> Wordpad uses the .RTF Extension.

Yes.  It works nicely in a VirtualBox... still.  Been over a decade now.  :)

Cheers,
Paul.

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