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["J. Grant" <jg AT jguk.org>]

Hi Rob,

> >  or I could buy a copy of
> > Microsoft Windows XP SP2 (£164.50) and Microsoft Word (£72.99) to be
> > able to read the document and keep quiet.
>
>
> The Free and free Open Office word processor will read the Word 
> documents sent to this list quite happily. OO is available for all major 
> platforms, including the Free Linux and BSD operating systems.
>
> See:
>
>     http://www.openoffice.org/

Thanks for the info. In my view it is better to avoid the problem of
having MS-Word documents (over treating the symptom, instead of every
person wishing to read having to install a program which attempts to
decode the file).

Kind regards
JG
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