Lee, For some time I have been using a program called catdoc which extracts the text from Word files. The text can either be redirected to a file or piped to less for viewing. John On Fri, 11 Apr 2003, 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 > -- Computers to Help People, Inc. http://www.chpi.org 825 East Johnson; Madison, WI 53703 _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list