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Help on viewers for electronic papers

Here are some free viewers downloadable from the WWW for various applications. Also included are various decompression utilities. Some of these links are now a bit dated. Suggestions and corrections are most welcome!
PostScript (.ps)
Ghostscript, Ghostview and GSview
Portable Data Format (.pdf)
Adobe Acrobat Reader
xpdf: a PDF viewer for X
Other viewers
Rich Text Format (.rtf)
RTF-Viewer-10 for Mac
Ted for Linux
Microsoft Office
Various viewers and converters
Microsoft Word (.doc)
Microsoft Word Viewer (Windows only, registration necessary)
Envoy (.evy)
Envoy Plug-in
Device Independent (.dvi)
DVI Viewer for Microsoft Windows
SeeTeX - DVI for X-11
ChiWriter (.???)
ChiView for DOS/Windows
Microsoft Excel (.xcl)
Microsoft Excel Viewer
WordPerfect (.wpd)
GCL-Commander for Windows 95 views WordPerfect 5.x and 6.x files (Broken link, new address appreciated!)
Plug-in from Corel views WordPerfect 8 files.
HyperText Markup Language (.htm, .html)
Browsers listed by Yahoo
Framemaker (.fm, .fm?, .mif)
FrameReader for Windows, Macintosh, Unix,
Zipped (.zip)
WinZip for Windows decompression
ZipIt for Macintosh decompression
On Unix, use the gunzip command
GNUzipped (.gz)
WinZip for Windows decompression
Mac gzip
On Unix, use the gunzip command
Taped (.tar)
Tar for Macintosh unpacking
WinZip for Windows unpacking
On Unix, use the tar -xvf filename command
Unixcompressed (.z)
Stuffit Expander for Macintosh decompression
On Unix, use the uncompress command
Prn (.prn)
At DOS prompt, type print filename.prn

Comments to Christian Zimmermann. I put all I know on this page, no need to ask me for more! But additions and corrections are most welcome!