[Nh-pm] word doc

[bscott at ntisys.com]

On Thu, 22 May 2003, at 3:19pm, fblack at docucorp.com wrote:
> Does anyone know how to read a word document?

  MS-Word would be the usual choice.  There are "free" MS-Word Viewers on
Microsoft's website as well.  You can run 'em native on Windows or MacOS or
some other commercial Unixes, or emulated under Wine or CodeWeavers or
Win4Lin or VMware or whatever.

  StarOffice/OpenOffice and many other non-Microsoft word processors can
usually import MS-Word .DOC files with a good degree of success.

  If all you want is the text, "strings" often works well enough.

  There is a more sophisticated "wvWare" suite (Free) that can do more.

  You might be a bit more specific.  What are you trying to do, what OS are
you using, that sort of thing.

  What does this have to do with Perl?  :)

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Ben Scott <bscott at ntisys.com>
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