wps to odt?

[Mike Jeays]

On February 2, 2010 07:35:42 pm Gary Kline wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 09:20:50AM +1100, andrew clarke wrote:
> > On Tue 2010-02-02 12:44:41 UTC-0800, Gary Kline (kline at thought.org) wrote:
> > > is there such a converter that sends m$ Works [.wps] to odt?
> >
> > AbiWord.
> >
> > And a quick-and-dirty shell script to convert all .wps (Microsoft
> > Works) word processor files in the current directory to .odt
> > (OpenDocument Text):
> >
> > #!/bin/sh
> >
> > for fn in *.wps; do
> >   abiword --to=odt $fn
> > done
>
> outstanding!  but if abiword can grow wps [thru hook or crook], i might as
> well use abiword....  [?]
>
> gary
>
> ps:  it's nice when there are so many "standards".....  :-|
> pps:  i did try abiword, first, just
>
> 	% abiword file.wps
>
> it came up with garbage.  FWIW... .
>
> > Regards
> > Andrew
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Abiword can also read '.docx' files.