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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Mon, 16 May 2005, David Moberg wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "sindi keesan" <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
>
> > I have been forwarding larger messages to this mailbox (so my other
> > one does not fill up) and today (in addition to 100K of assorted
> > little jpegs in a joke) I received something 385K ending in .pps,
> > which is apparently 'power point show'.  Does mplayer handle this
> > sort of thing?
>
> No. It is a completely different type of software application.
>
> > Or MagicPoint?
>
> MagicPoint is too small to support pps files.
>
> > Or anything in linux that would work with BL?
>
> xlhtml appears to be able to convert ppt files to html. I'm not sure
> if pps files are supported.

I have a DOS version of this (which I had to get in order to decode the 
local blood donation schedule one year) which I will try on the file.  It 
worked on Excel directly.  Thanks.

Will Mplayer do .swf files?  People are always sending something new.
(Shockwave Flash, I believe it is).

> OpenOffice.org Impress can load pps files, but it is huge.
>
> Those are all that I know of...
>
> David
>
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