Re: [WinMac] KOffice files to Mac or Win.

Subject: Re: [WinMac] KOffice files to Mac or Win.
From: Leonard Rosenthol (leonardr[at]lazerware.com)
Date: Sun Jan 20 2002 - 10:33:32 EST

At 01:28 PM 1/20/2002 +0700, Brian Durant wrote:
>I am trying to move some files from a computer with Mandrake 8 (Linux)
>installed to either a Mac or a Win 98 computer with a printer connected.

         OK. You do know that there are ways to share the printer with
your Linux box, rather than moving the files, right??

>Does anyone know how KOffice documents should be associated in the Mac 9.1 &
>Win 98 OS's?

         Which program in KOffice? KWord? KSheet? KChart??

>I have tried to open in Office 2001 and get a prompt as to what
>to convert the document from.

         Right.

>When transferred to the Mac desktop, it
>automatically gets associated as a DOS text file.

         Yup.

>Canopener can't display
>the text properly and neither will BBEdit, nor Nisus Writer.

         BBEdit should open the file just fine and probably display the
underlying XML or other format - again, we don't know which KOffice app.

Leonard

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