[lug] .doc to .txt on Linux

[Bruce Raup]

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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