Cool. Thanks for the info. ----- Original Message ----- From: Charles Crawford <ccrawford@xxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2003 2:03 PM Subject: Converting ms-word files to text made very easy > Hey Everyone, I was struggling with wordview which has a bunch of > powerful options like making a word file into an html file, but Bill Acker > told me about catdoc. Now this is the lazy man's heaven. All I did was > install the rpm and use the command line argument catdoc file.doc>file.txt > and press enter. Now I have the original doc file and a text (.txt) file > with the name I gave it. Can life get any better? With catdoc and > pdftotext I have solved two big problems that get in the way of someone > trying to use a great text interface in a Windows world. > > 10 points for Linux and heh heh for the other guys. > > -- Charlie. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
