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   Paul Quinn to Ed Vance   
   Reading files with MS Ext   
   29 Jul 18 15:00:39   
   
   Hi! Ed,   
      
   On 28 Jul 18 20:06, you wrote to All:   
      
    EV> I was wondering if a program exist in Ubuntu Linux that can read   
    EV> text files I saved to disk with a M$ Windows pc using their Wordpad   
    EV> program?   
      
   I just did a left double-click on one of them thar things lying around and the   
   file manager doover fired-up Abiword (v3.0.0), showing a real nice, clean,   
   view of the doc. Note that Xubuntu is my preferred GUI, BTW.   
      
   what does yours do?   
      
    EV> Wordpad uses the .RTF Extension.   
      
   Yes.  It works nicely in a VirtualBox... still.  Been over a decade now.  :)   
      
   Cheers,   
   Paul.   
      
   ... Tuesday is Soylent Green day.   
   --- GoldED+/LNX 1.1.5-b20130515   
    * Origin: Quinn's Rock - Live from Paul's Xubuntu desktop! (3:640/1384)   

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