Converting ms-word files to text made very easy

[Thomas D. Ward]

Cool. Thanks for the info.


----- Original Message -----
From: Charles Crawford <ccrawford at acb.org>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2003 2:03 PM
Subject: Converting ms-word files to text made very easy


> Hey Everyone,   I was struggling with wordview which has a bunch of
> powerful options like making a word file into an html file, but Bill Acker
> told me about catdoc. Now this is the lazy man's heaven.  All I did was
> install the rpm and use the command line argument catdoc file.doc>file.txt
> and press enter.  Now I have the original doc file and a text (.txt) file
> with the name I gave it.  Can life get any better? With catdoc and
> pdftotext I have solved two big problems that get in the way of someone
> trying to use a great text interface in a Windows world.
>
> 10 points for Linux and heh heh for the other guys.
>
> -- Charlie.
>
>
>
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