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to: ED VANCE
from: BENNY PEDERSEN
date: 2018-07-29 11:55:00
subject: Reading files with MS Ext

Hello Ed!

28 Jul 2018 20:06, Ed Vance 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?

   ----- antiword begins -----
* app-text/antiword
     Available versions:  0.37-r1 {kde}
     Homepage:            http://www.winfield.demon.nl
     Description:         free MS Word reader

   ----- antiword ends -----

   ----- unrtf begins -----
* app-text/unrtf
     Available versions:  0.21.9
     Homepage:            https://www.gnu.org/software/unrtf/unrtf.html
     Description:         Converts RTF files to various formats

   ----- unrtf ends -----

   ----- rtf2html begins -----
* app-text/rtf2html
     Available versions:  ~0.2.0-r1 {debug}
     Homepage:            http://rtf2html.sourceforge.net/
     Description:         RTF to HTML converter

   ----- rtf2html ends -----

textmode tools to handle it

 EV> Wordpad uses the .RTF Extension.

foo.rtf.txt

so it looks like


 Regards Benny

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