[ale] reading MS Word files

Dunlap, Randy randy.dunlap at intel.com
Mon Apr 19 18:06:56 EDT 1999


MSWordView is at http://www.csn.ul.ie/~caolan/docs/MSWordView.html .
The web page also lists some alternatives.

~Randy


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Newcombe [mailto:Newcombe at mordor.clayton.edu]
> Sent: Monday, April 19, 1999 1:02 PM
> To: Ben Phillips
> Cc: ale at ale.org
> Subject: Re: [ale] reading MS Word files
> 
> 
> On Sun, 18 Apr 1999, Ben Phillips wrote:
> > Is there an msword-2-text utility out there for linux?  Or 
> something with
> > equivalent functionality?
> 
> I am using something called mswordview (don't remember where I got it)
> that converts a word document to html.  For stuff I get in 
> word via pine,
> it converts it and kicks off lynx to view it all at once.  
> Works great.
> 
> 	-Dan
> 






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