[lug] .doc to .txt on Linux

PC Drew drewpc at colorado.edu
Fri Sep 8 13:03:24 MDT 2000


And one called 'catdoc'

http://www.fe.msk.ru/~vitus/catdoc/

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PC Drew

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On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Bruce Raup wrote:

> There is also a program called 'antiword'
> (http://www.winfield.demon.nl/index.html) that converts Word documents to
> plain text or PostScript.  It is useful, but perhaps mswordview would be
> better if it can output HTML directly.
> 
> Bruce
> 
> On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Rob Riggs wrote:
> 
> > There is a really cool utility called 'mswordview' (a stock
> > package in KRUD, btw) that converts Word docs to HTML, which
> > can be viewed or dumped as text using lynx.
> > 
> > John Starkey wrote:
> > > 
> > > Anyone know of a very quick and easy way to convert .doc format to
> > > something readable on linux without a GUI??
> > > 
> > > I have 30 documents that I have to code html for. I have the printout so I
> > > can see what the client wanted originally. They haven't sent the images
> > > yet so I don't have to worry about that.
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > 
> > > John
> > > 
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