That should be mswordview (or something close).
Problem is still that quite often you're asked to *add* or *change*
something in those .doc or .xls files. (Sigh.)
Gustav
Stephen M Lavelle wrote:
>
> Paul,
> do a search on http://freshmeat.net for catdoc - it strips the
> formatting from a MS .doc and reads as plain text. I think there is
> another similar app but its name escapes me.
> Regards
> Stephen
>
> Paul M. Foster wrote:
> > Here's what I want to know: why hasn't someone put out an open source
> > program that reads .DOC files (any version) and converts them to something
> > like RTF? That way, we wouldn't need to open some huge program just to see
> > what they sent us. Maybe similar with .XLS and SYLK.
> >
> > Paul M. Foster
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