converting files to text

[Chris Nestrud]

Also catdoc, which converts Microsoft Word files and sends to STDOUT.

Chris


On Wed, 20 Dec 2000, Buddy Brannan wrote:

> Couple of options here, Chuck.
> 
> WV (formerly Wordview) has a utility that converts from Word to HTML. The
> HTML is kinda messy though, but readable in Lynx. However, my fave util is
> antiword, which dumps ASCII to stdout by default, but you can pipe through
> more or redirect to a file if you like. It's small. It's fast. It even
> works. If you can't find it on freshmeat, lemme know and I'll send you a
> copy.
> 
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