Re: Fwd: Questions

From: Alan Horkan (horkana@tcd.ie)
Date: Sun Apr 14 2002 - 13:12:57 EDT

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    On Sun, 14 Apr 2002, Randy Kramer wrote:

    > Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2002 08:35:13 -0400
    > From: Randy Kramer <rhkramer@fast.net>
    > To: Francisco Borneo <cborneo@mx1.ligbr.com.br>
    > Cc: edkaspro@juno.com, abiword-user@abisource.com
    > Subject: Re: Fwd: Questions
    >
    > Francisco Borneo wrote:
    > > At 18:39 09/04/02 +0100, Alan wrote:
    > > >if you mean can you open .abw documents without having abiword the answer
    > > >is basically no.
    > >
    > > If you want to uninstall aw and retain your files, save them in .rtf,
    > > delete aw and, maybe, you'll be able to open them in Atlantis, Word,
    > > Staroffice and so on. I guess...
    >
    > I'm not sure of the intent of the original poster -- you've received at
    > least two correct answers. A third answer is that you can open the .abw
    > files with an ordinary text editor -- of course you will see all the XML
    > tags within <angle brackets>. But, you see your text as well. (And, in
    > essence, this is a variety (or precursor?) of the "view codes" option
    > that some have requested.

    good thing we dont make life difficult for people and compress the file
    format by default

    /me ducks flames

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