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