abiword

[kenneth hatteland]

I am having serious problems getting my freebsd machines with  abiword 
installed to open .doc files. Text becomes totally garbled and 
unreadable. Have searched the net and the few  abiword forums I can find 
but nowhere  does it say  what nob  is unturned on  my freebsd 
installs.  winxp and linux machines opens  such documents ok. Anyone 
using this and know something wise ?
OpenOffice would be an alternative, but I only have 4gb left of /usr so 
it won` t build.

blessed be
Kenneth, norway