[plug] reading word documents

[Christian]

On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 11:13:15AM +0800, Matt Kemner wrote:
 
> There are several.
> If you just want to read them, there is one called "mswordview" that
> converts word documents into html, so you can then view them with your web
> browser.  "catdoc" is similar, except it only strips out the text.

I recently used antiword which also did quite a good job of stripping
out just the text and retaining the basics of the layout.  The DOC file
in question was a whitepaper from Microsoft that crashed StarOffice when
I tried to load it... Hmmm!