Is it possible to view files made in 'Kate' (.kwd) with Windows? I can view .doc files using 'Kate' so I thought maybe I could do the reverse? Or is Microsoft not playing ball again?

According to konqueror, Kate saves files in
plain text format, so you should be able to
save your Kate documents with the .txt
extension. Then Windows should recognize the
file as text. The one caveat to all this is
Windows saves carriage returns differently
than Linux, so you will have some strange
looking characters throughout your text.
Wherever Linux had a carriage return, Windows
will display a box character.

Now if you are using Kword to create
the .kwd files, that is a different matter.
Kword is a word processor [part of the
Koffice office suite], and saves files in
its own file format. I do not use kword, so
I do not know if it will save files in the
[MS]Word file format. The word processor in
Open Office. org does permit saving files
this way, and that is what I use for cross
platform / suit compatibility. Open
Office.org is somewhat resource intensive,
but I do not install the Fast start
component. This is a component which runs as
a daemon at Linux system start. It simply
waits for you to open your Open Office.org
tools. The way it speeds up load time is it
loads part of the suite with the daemon. I
do not use it all the time, so I prefer to
wait the extra bit of time when I need it.

Ernie [ewilcox@buckeye-express.com]
ICQ 41060744
Registered Linux User 247790
Contributing author to Uptime
http://www.steidler.net/uptime

FYI: Converting unix/dos text files

##DOS -> UNIX
$ sed -e 's/.$//' dos.txt > unix.txt

##UNIX -> DOS
$ sed -e 's/$/\r/' unix.txt > dos.txt

Hey thanks for the help guys :-)

Hi,
Can I have somebody's help to convert my .kwd file into a plain .txt file view-able using Windows OS platform?

Thanks,
C

You can unzip them and extract the raw text
from the xml document within.