Re: flexfax: some1 knows how to let sendfax to send a ms word doc??

[Mike Porter <mike@UDel.Edu>]

On Wed, 8 Sep 1999, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:

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> On Wed, 8 Sep 1999, Luca Domenella wrote:
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> > Hi all,
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> >   i have this problem: i need to send a Microsoft Word 97 document using
> > sendfax.
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> You're hosed. There is no way in the world, including Microsoft
> compatible software like Lotus, etc., to be certain of converting a
> Word 97 document into any other format. Simply put, they have crowded
> so many "features" into it that it is not portable, nor is it
> intelligible or supportable.

There is a program called mswordview (I think) that runs on at
least Linux boxes.  The existance of this program doesn't directly
refute what you are saying...maybe mswordview doesn't work very
well or can't work very well.  But, Luca, it might be worth a
shot.

Try ftp://ftp.falsehope.com/pub/mswordview

Mike