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   Benny Pedersen to Ed Vance   
   Reading files with MS Ext   
   29 Jul 18 11:55:44   
   
   Hello Ed!   
      
   28 Jul 2018 20:06, Ed Vance 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?   
      
      ----- antiword begins -----   
   * app-text/antiword   
        Available versions:  0.37-r1 {kde}   
        Homepage:            http://www.winfield.demon.nl   
        Description:         free MS Word reader   
      
      ----- antiword ends -----   
      
      ----- unrtf begins -----   
   * app-text/unrtf   
        Available versions:  0.21.9   
        Homepage:            https://www.gnu.org/software/unrtf/unrtf.html   
        Description:         Converts RTF files to various formats   
      
      ----- unrtf ends -----   
      
      ----- rtf2html begins -----   
   * app-text/rtf2html   
        Available versions:  ~0.2.0-r1 {debug}   
        Homepage:            http://rtf2html.sourceforge.net/   
        Description:         RTF to HTML converter   
      
      ----- rtf2html ends -----   
      
   textmode tools to handle it   
      
    EV> Wordpad uses the .RTF Extension.   
      
   foo.rtf.txt   
      
   so it looks like   
      
      
    Regards Benny   
      
   ... there can only be one way of life, and it works :)   
      
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    * Origin: I will always keep a PC running CPM 3.0 (2:230/0)   

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