On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Igor Gueths wrote: > Hi Chuck. I might get around to playing with Antiword again sometime > in the future don't know when. Anyone here ever hear of or use catdoc? > It works nicely for extracting the ascii strings out of the word file. If I want to pull the ascii strings out of anything, including word docs, I just use a line like this from a bash prompt: cat foobar.doc |strings |foobar.txt What's so hard about that? Cheers. -- Toby Fisher Email: toby at g0ucu.freeserve.co.uk Tel.: +44(0)1480 417272 Mobile: +44(0)7974 363239 ICQ: #61744808 Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
