antiword reads aal Word-files for me. The manpage says: antiword - show the text and images of MS Word documents On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 09:37:45AM -0400, Lee Maschmeyer wrote: > Hi all, > > Like many others, I receive many emails with MS-Word attachments. Sage > advice from this group has traditionally been to inform such > correspondents that this is unacceptable practice, but since the senders > include not only my boss but people from the university president on > down, such an approach lacks a certain finesse. > > Not long ago someone off-list mentioned using wordview. I asked what it > was and where to get it, but while awaiting a response I did a Google > search. One thing I found was wvWare, a successor of a previous program > whose name was too close for comfort to Microsoft's. > > This looked promising, but when I read the release notes, they were so > disparaging (this is a work in progress and subject to radical change, > etc.) I figured I'd ask whether this is the best product for reading > Word docs on Linux. > > Thanks for any advice, > > Lee > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list -- ------------------------------- Jos Lemmens The Netherlands E-mail: jos@xxxxxxxxxxx Homepage: www.jlemmens.nl _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list