I just discovered a wonderful little program. Turns ms word, xl, or powerpoint into readable ascii. I compiled it and ran it on a few files, and it seems to work pretty well. http://www.45.free.net/~vitus/ice/catdoc/ Karl Dahlke _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list