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From:Gary Peake
Date:8 Sep 2000 at 16:41:45
Subject:Re: Sanskrit not

On Fri, 8 Sep 2000 11:44:01 +0100, "Anthony W. Prime"
<anthony@prime.clara.co.uk> wrote:

>
>Hi Garry and Gerry
>
>> > Due to the upward mobility at work I now find myself having to deal
>> > with Documents produced by that well known memory gobbler/ M$ word/
>> > . What I want to know is what's the best util for both reading and
>> > writing Word Dicuments on the Amiga. Unfortunately due to Company
>> > anti-virus policy ASCII is banned.
>
>> A rather stupid policy if you ask me... but anyway, for reading Word
>> documents you could try the MS Word datatype (available from
>> http://go.to/docdatatypes ), or there's MSWordView (from Aminet). As
>> for writing them, I'm not sure if that's possible with Amiga software.
>
>> You could always try emulating a Mac and running the Macintosh
>> version.
>
>Or perhaps RTF may be considered ok? In which case Final Writer will do the
>business (and maybe WW too?)

We just looked at the latest version of AmigaWriter by Haage-Partner and it
is quite good as well.



Gary



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