installing antiword

[Toby Fisher]

On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Igor Gueths wrote:

> Hi Chuck. I might get around to playing with Antiword again sometime
> in the future don't know when. Anyone here ever hear of or use catdoc?
> It works nicely for extracting the ascii strings out of the word file.

If I want to pull the ascii strings out of anything, including word docs,
I just use a line like this from a bash prompt:

cat foobar.doc |strings |foobar.txt

What's so hard about that?

Cheers.

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