apple files

[Tim Kellers]

If your client is using Appleworks, it's a bit more difficult.

I had a hacked up version of an Appleworks file format reader taken from OS X 
(server) 1.1 --or maybe the earlier version, circa 1999.  If yu need it let 
me know and I'll see if I can dig it up.

Tim Kellers
CPE/NJIT


On Sunday 20 July 2003 12:27 am, Bill Campbell wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 06:14:23AM +0200, Cliff Sarginson wrote:
> >Hello
> >I did have a look in the ports.
> >But does anyone know of a program I can use in mutt to read attachments
> >that arrive in apple file formats ?
> >I have to communicate a lot with an Apple user, using god alone knows
> >what word processor.  I think he is using Apple's verson of Word,
> >but it is hard to get this information out of him, since he is
> >about as technical as a mongoose.
>
> Antiword does a pretty decent job of turning M$ .doc files into ascii text,
> and it worked fine with a simple ``hello world'' type document created with
> M$ Office on OS X (typically the four word file took 19,456 bytes :-).
>
> All I'm using to handle this in mutt is one line in my ~/.mailcap:
>
> application/msword; antiword %s; copiousoutput
>
> Bill
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