From:	tore DOT johnny DOT braatveit AT bigfoot DOT com (Tore Johnny Braatveit)
To:	"Mike Vince" <mike DOT vince AT monode DOT force9 DOT co DOT uk>
Cc:	caldera-opendos AT rim DOT caldera DOT com
Cc:	opendos AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: xcopy alternatives? and email
Date:	Sun, 17 May 1998 20:50:23 +0200
Organization:	Min egen, private fritid ;-))
Reply-To:	tore DOT johnny DOT braatveit AT bigfoot DOT com
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References:	<199805171054 DOT GAA22997 AT delorie DOT com>
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Hi,

I cannot help you much with Xcopy alternatives, I am afraid.

In article <199805171054 DOT GAA22997 AT delorie DOT com>, you wrote:
> I receive many email with file attachments.  These are often M$ 
> Office 97 files (Excel and Word).  As these are from customers I 
> can't ignore them, so is there an alternative to using W95 and Office 
> 97 to process these?  Once I can solve this I don't need Windoze.

Then you can throw out Windoze already today. :-))

Here is the description of the program you need:

VIEW - the file viewer
======================

Platform: DOS (runs in Windows 3.1 and Win95 windows)
-----------------------------------------------------

VIEW is a fast file viewer and prnter for common word processing file
formats - Wordperfect, Word, Ami Pro, Notepad/Wordpad, Windows Write,
ClarisWorks, RTF, well as HTML and ASCII/ANSI files.

It has text search functions and various print functions, including a
direct link to the compressed font utilities 2COL and JETCOL.

Coupled with the bundled utility BATCHCNV it allows you to convert lists of
files on the fly to two formats - pure ASCII and "soft" ASCII.  The latter
does not contain hard returns, except at paragraph breaks, and is useful
for importing files into word processors.

It has a special scrolling mode for visually-impaired users with speech
synthesis software.

It feaures special modes for displaying on the HP Palmtop in its different
display modes.

VIEW is fully configurable.


So much for the description.
You can find Windmill Software's homepage at this URL:
http://www.nrcan.gc.ca/~mdrury/shware.html

The latest version of View is 14.0.

Tore Johnny

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