try: catdoc Package: catdoc Priority: optional Section: text Installed-Size: 636 Maintainer: Bdale Garbee Version: 0.91.4-1 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1.2) Suggests: wish Architecture: i386 Size: 66394 MD5sum: e31084fed199fbda2ae24af844542250 Filename: dists/woody/main/binary-i386/text/catdoc_0.91.4-1.deb Description: MS-Word to TeX or plain text converter This program extracts text from MS-Word files, trying to preserve as many special printable characters as possible. catdoc supports everything up to Word-97. . It doesn't even try to preserve fancy Word formatting, because Word users usually don't care about document structure, and it is this very thing which is important to LaTeX users. . Also provided is xls2csv, which extracts data from Excel spreadsheets and outputs it in comma-separated-value format. . This package suggests 'wish' because it also includes wordview, an optional Tk-based GUI for catdoc. The MIME config provided in this package will use wordview is X is running, or catdoc directly if it is not. It seems like on Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 07:43:04AM -0700, Rod Roark scribbled: Orig Msg> On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, Jason wrote: Orig Msg> > > If interested, please send text in plain text to john@excelco.com. DO Orig Msg> > > NOT send any attachments in the form of *.DOC to me for review. I will Orig Msg> > > not open them! Principals only at this time. Orig Msg> > Orig Msg> > Is there a linux solution (even a simply C program to strip the M$ Orig Msg> > coding and give some decent plaintext; the M$ format files are rarely Orig Msg> > in a sensible order) to opening these annoying .DOC files yet? Orig Msg> Orig Msg> StarOffice reads them effectively. Orig Msg> Orig Msg> -- Rod Orig Msg> http://www.sunsetsystems.com/ Orig Msg> JLF Sends... Doing my part to educate the Clubie Illiterati one LART at a time.