converting files to text

[Janina Sajka]

Hi, Chuck:

I read M$ Word files by converting them to WAI comformant, w3c html with a
utility called wordview. Once compiled, the command wvHtml [source.file] >
[output.file] would convert the .doc to a .html that you can pull up in
Lynx or the w3 browser. Note the cap H in wvHtml.

Do I remember where to get wordview? No, regretably. Try the rpm
repository, I guess. The url in the man file no longer works.
 On Wed, 20
Dec 2000, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:

> I recently discovered the utility "ps2ascii" which extracts text from
> postscript files and also from pdf files. Now what I wish I could discover
> is a similar utility to deal with MS Word files. I am curious to know what
> some of you "Linux Only" users do when you get files attached as MSWord
> documents?
> Chuck
>
>
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