Re: [NTLK] .doc on a Newt (was newtontalk Digest V3 #255)

From: Robert Benschop (rbenschop_at_euronet.nl)
Date: Sun May 11 2003 - 23:56:34 PDT


On Monday, May 12, 2003, at 06:46 Europe/Amsterdam, james brosche wrote:
> how do i read a doc file? I sent myself one and the newt says it
> requires statioary or programs i dont have. Its sent via simple mail.
> on a 2000MP. so any ideas?

Basic answer: don't and won't

Long answer: your Newt can't read .doc documents and since it's awfully
bad form to send text as an attachment and even worse to do it in a
Word .doc format maybe we should be very happy about this?

Robert Benschop

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