Number6, gave me a link to an .rtf file, and it displays as formatted plain text in multiview.
When I compared it with the HMTL version the text is exactly the same, with the same paragraph, and spacing, but is in the default font.
So it seems that there is no file corruption using these datatypes.

Tested:-
Win98 doc files, and rtf doc files.
Firbodi has also tested XP doc files and they work perfectly OK, although he has only the demo version installed.

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Peter Swallow.
A1XEG3-800 [IBM 750FX PowerPC], running OS4.1FE, using ac97 onboard sound.

"There are 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don't."

This looks very cool, will have a look over the weekend at it!

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Are we not done with the same silly arguments and flames yet??!

For viewing Word documents in OS4, you can also use this tool:

http://os4depot.net/share/utility/text/convert/antiword_os4.lha

Using a modified version of its viewword.rexx file, in YAM I can just double-click those lousy Word attachments and they are automatically displayed in AmiPDF, properly formatted, including any embedded image(s).

Normally I don't need to edit those documents so PDF works fine for me, but it's possible to generate other output formats with AntiWord, if needed.

My YAM:REXX/Word2AmiPDF.rexx file looks like this:

/* Word2AmiPDF.rexx                                        */
/* Convert word attachments to PDF and display with AmiPDF */
/* YAM MIME settings                                       */
/*       Type: application/msword                          */
/*  Extension: doc                                         */
/*     Viewer: RX YAM:Rexx/ViewWord.rexx %s                */

options results

parse arg file

address command "Sys:Utilities/AmiPDF/AntiWord >T:AntiWord.pdf -a letter -i 0 " || file 
address command "Sys:Utilities/AmiPDF/AmiPDF T:AntiWord.pdf"
address command "Delete T:AntiWord.pdf"

exit

/* EOF */

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AlexC's free OS4 software collection

AmigaOne XE/X1000/X5000/UAE-PPC OS4 laptop/X-10 Home Automation

@AmigAlex

Thanks for the script. Changed only the path for the antiword (amipfd/antiword/antiword). I deleted src, docs and keeped data
as its needed. I believe docs isnt need as it works without.

So now i can read .doc's in pdf format.

Thats very useful, I actually print to PDF on the PC, and read them in AmiPDF on my A1.

Antiword only supports word 6 documents, not the range supported by these datatypes. The usefullness of these datatypes, is that you can load these type of docs within Amiga datatype aware programs. So if you need to use, or import doc formats then just reading them is not very useful. On the other hand if you only want to read them then your solution is very useful.

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Peter Swallow.
A1XEG3-800 [IBM 750FX PowerPC], running OS4.1FE, using ac97 onboard sound.

"There are 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don't."