How do I read Microsoft Word documents on my Sun?
You can obtain some of the raw content of the document by using the"strings" command. Note that Word documents (and documents produced by
other Microsoft Office programs, like Excel) can sometimes contain hidden
information that is not normally accessible from Word, but is visible using
"strings" (this can be a good reason not to distribute documents in MS
Office formats).
It is possible to run some versions of Microsoft Word on your Sun, using
WABI, SoftWindows, WinCenter, WinDD, SunPC, or some other Windows
integration product.
You can use a word-processor that can import the various MS Word formats.
For example, Word Perfect from Corel Corporation is capable of reading and
saving in various MS Word formats. Word Perfect is available for several
versions of UNIX, including SPARC/Solaris 2.x. Sun's StarOffice Personal
Edition is freely available for various operating systems, including
Solaris/SPARC, from http://www.sun.com/staroffice
From a PC/Mac, you can print postscript output to a file, and view the
postscript on the Sun using docviewer or ghostscript/ghostview.
Rachel Polanskis
Simpson
text or LaTeX. She ported it to Solaris; it's available at
ftp://ftp.zeta.org.au/home/grove/stuff/word2x-sol.2.5.1.tar.gz
Sun produces the PC File Viewer software, which is free to Solaris 2.6
SPARC customers. It allows MS Word files and other common PC application
files (e.g. Word Perfect) to be viewed on the Solaris desktop. It's at:
http://www.sun.com/desktop/products/software/pcviewer.html
Thomas Anders
can read Word6 and Word7 format is available on the web at
http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~schwartz/pmh/. Other suitable packages include
wvWare, which is available at http:/www.wvWare.com, and "wordview", which
is available at http://www.fe.msk.ru/~vitus/catdoc/.
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