I'm wondering if such a beast exists...
I often get mail attachments from people here at the uni where I work that
are m$-word documents.
I'm using mh (and exmh once I bash it into shape a little more) to read my
mail, and I have it set up to handle all sorts of mail attachments.
But I have nothing that will allow me to view these word .doc files.
What I'd like to do is use a small utility that will convert these
attachments into plain ascii text for viewing, and hopefully preserve some
of the formatting in the process.
I've come across a perl library here:
http://wwwwbs.cs.tu-berlin.de/~schwartz/pmh/
<quote>
LAOLA
[...]
is a collection of documentations and perl programs dealing with
binary file formats of Windows program documents. LAOLA is giving access
to the raw document streams of any program using "structured storage"
technology to save its documents. ELSER is dealing especially with these
streams as they are present in Word 6 and Word 7 documents.
</quote>
It sounds very good, but it is a full development (perl object) library,
far too bloated for my particular needs.
If there is a smaller, simpler utility (or a way to install and use a
cut-down version of this library), then I would be very grateful to hear
about it.
Many thanks.
[Copy Bcc'ed to Martin Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, the author of
laola.]
Cheers
Tony .
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