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+.\" Hey, EMACS: -*- nroff -*-
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+.\" other parameters are allowed: see man(7), man(1)
+.TH KOCONVERTER 1 "May 9, 2003"
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+.\"
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+.SH NAME
+koconverter \- convert between office suite file formats
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.B koconverter
+[ \fIgeneric-options\fP ]
+[ \fB\-\-mimetype\fP \fImime\fP ]
+\fIinput\fP \fIoutput\fP
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+\fBKOConverter\fP is the KOffice file format converter. It uses the
+KOffice import and export filters to convert from any file format
+that is understood by KOffice to any other.
+.PP
+This tool is part of the Trinity Office Suite.
+.SH OPTIONS
+Below are the koconverter-specific options. For a full summary of options,
+run \fIkoconverter \-\-help\fP.
+.TP
+\fB\-\-mimetype\fP \fImime\fP
+Use \fImime\fP as the mime type for the output file. This option should be
+used when the desired type of output file cannot be determined from its
+name alone.
+.SH EXAMPLES
+The following line will convert an Excel spreadsheet to a native KSpread
+file.
+.PP
+.RS
+\fIexample$\fP koconverter file.xls file.ksp
+.RE
+.PP
+The following line will convert an Excel spreadsheet to a plain text
+file. Note that this conversion is done internally by first importing
+to a KSpread spreadsheet and then exporting as plain text.
+.PP
+.RS
+\fIexample$\fP koconverter file.xls file.txt
+.RE
+.SH AUTHOR
+KOConverter was written by David Faure <[email protected]>.
+.br
+This manual page was written by Ben Burton <[email protected]>
+for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).