on thu NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER at NUMBER NUMBER barry dexter a gonzaga wrote on thu aug NUMBER NUMBER at NUMBER NUMBER NUMBERpm NUMBER larry w virden wrote i am wondering whether there s a way that i can use sitescooper and or plucker or some other free utility to convert word documents into something a bit more palmos friendly you could try antiword URL it s consoled based and converts word NUMBER docs to text and some images to postscript and png also there s catdoc and wv for word text conversions actually wv consists of wvware which as the manpage says converts word documents into other formats such as ps pdf html latex dvi abw html would probably be the best format for use with plucker sitescooper depending on how good the doc html conversion is i haven t used either in over a year as abiword or openoffice work well enough prefer abiword for it s light weight size but openoffice has the better doc importer don t know which of these are better or worse than the other but i figure the more the merrier you could also try openoffice and or abiword if you have x installed abiword supports exporting to palmdoc pdb which is about as palmos friendly as you can get never tried needed it but it s listed there in the save as dialog box wine or crossover office if you already have it may support word viewer free download from microsoft but didn t a year or so ago when i last tried word viewer is what i used back in the day to convert word NUMBER docs to word NUMBER as you could display the word NUMBER doc and copy paste the text with formatting into word NUMBER which was the only version of word that i had anyways a little nostalgia i don t have a windows machine so it becomes problematic to convert them i know that if this were not the case in word i could save them as some other more friendly format i have a windows dual boot machine but it only get used by my significant other and for burning multi session cd r rw is there any linux gui app that supports cdrecord s multi session feature since openoffice i ve been able to edit word docs flawlessly or at least the simple word documents i receive from others anyways please request permission to redistribute author s comments or email address this URL email is sponsored by osdn tired of that same old cell phone get a new here for free URL _______________________________________________ sitescooper talk mailing list sitescooper talk URL URL 