At 10:03 AM 17-05-01 +1000, you wrote:

>I believe there are open source libs to handle word docs (right up to 2000)
>
>Try looking at www.abiword.com for a start
>Cheers
>Adam

Thanks, Adam.

This was a bad URL - found www.abisource.com and joined the mailing list. So far, I see that abiword can import Word docs right up to Word2k. Can't find anything so far about the Word specs but the abiword code is OS. The main trap seems to be that it is GPL.

Cheers,
Helen

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