I recently discovered the utility "ps2ascii" which extracts text from postscript files and also from pdf files. Now what I wish I could discover is a similar utility to deal with MS Word files. I am curious to know what some of you "Linux Only" users do when you get files attached as MSWord documents? Chuck My web site is http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh "It's a dog-eat-dog world, and I'm wearing Milk Bone underwear."