On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 07:54:15AM -0400, Henry Yen wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 10:38:16AM -0400, Joel Hammer wrote:
> > My mail is not getting through it seems, but, it will likely
> > sometime.
> > If you haven't got wordperfect8 or abiword, and don't want to
> > fire up staroffice, the easiest command to read word97 documents
> > seems to be strings.
> > strings word97.doc puts out a surprisingly good looking text
> > file, I have just noticed.
> > In my mailcap file, I used:
> > application/octet-stream;strings %s | less
> > and it did just fine in mutt.
>
> mutt is _real_ good, alright...
>
> but, there are a couple of applications out there (check freshmeat.net?)
> that convert (one-way) from word to open formats (e.g., html).
>
> i ran into anti-word recently; i think that outputs html.
Actually it outputs either PostScript or ASCII text (nicely formatted,
compared to the output of strings).
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