Hi, Chuck: I read M$ Word files by converting them to WAI comformant, w3c html with a utility called wordview. Once compiled, the command wvHtml [source.file] > [output.file] would convert the .doc to a .html that you can pull up in Lynx or the w3 browser. Note the cap H in wvHtml. Do I remember where to get wordview? No, regretably. Try the rpm repository, I guess. The url in the man file no longer works. On Wed, 20 Dec 2000, Charles Hallenbeck wrote: > 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." > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) janina at afb.net (202) 408-8175 http://www.afb.org/gov.html The invention of the printing press has been named the crowning achievement of the past millennium. Yet, electronic publishing will soon eclipse it. Read our White Paper: "Surpassing Gutenberg" available at: http://www.afb.org/ebook.html Are you developing software? Make it accessible to blind computer users. Read http://www.afb.org/technology/accessapp.html to learn how.
