saving and opening.doc files in linux

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How to print .ps under windows?

On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Osvaldo wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 10:26:28AM +0200, Gustafsson Kristoffer (elev) wrote:
>> Hello!
>> How do I save and open.doc files in linux?
> You can open .doc files in OpenOffice.
> You can also save thme from OpenOffice.
> But you don't have access to OpenOffice because you don't have access to X
> on a functional way yet.
> You can also use antiword, or catdoc or wv to convert .doc files to txt or
> html under Gnu/Linux.
>
>> I want to leave windows and use only linux, but when I tried my teacher
>> got angry with me because I couldn't save as a wordfile when he wanted it.
>
> You have to tell your teacher to read some documentation about open source,
> the gnu philosophy versus the closed formats of some dominant and
> monopolistic closed-source software company: Word isn't a standard, it's
> just MS' standard.
> It is completely absurd to work under a Gnu/Linux system while continuing to
> look how to produce documents in a proprietary format.
> Maybe if your teacher need some good presentation of articles, reports, etc,
> you can find your happyness in tools like TeX/LaTeX: you can start with a
> .tex file and produce professional printing .ps, .pdf, .eps, also convert to
> navigable html, etc.
>
> If you can bring this to your teacher maybe he will better understand the
> absurd goal of making docs under Gnu/Linux. I think so.
>
> Success!
>
> Osvaldo.
>
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