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 .
How can I get gb*.bdf.gz?
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At 23:22 2000-03-27 -0600, Bret Hughes wrote:
>Just today I needed to send a document to someone that I had no idea
>what they use for word processing. This was a word 97 document with a
>table that had been converted from an excel spreadsheet. I saved it in
>html from word, changed < font face
Try here for catdoc, rev 0.91.4 December 30 1999 plus a list
of other "Competing" products.
http://www.fe.msk.ru/~vitus/catdoc/
Bill
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
Just today I needed to send a document to someone that I had no idea
what they use for word processing. This was a word 97 document with a
table that had been converted from an excel spreadsheet. I saved it in
html from word, changed < font face = arial to
> I haven't tried these, but have see
I haven't tried these, but have seen things like this before on freshmeat.
http://word2x.alcom.co.uk/
http://www.wvWare.com/
they preserve formatting (to some degree). Let us know how they perform!
charles
On Mon, 27 Mar 2000, Paul M. Foster wrote:
>
> I can write a perl script to do that. Th
On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, 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.
I can write a perl script to do that. The formatting is re
On Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 12:04:45PM +1000, Stephen M Lavelle wrote:
| 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.
Indeed. Very handy. I recently wrapped it in a s
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
> pro
