Annoying .DOC files (was Re: Excelco Needs Accounting, Technical, Programming People)

[Rod Roark]

On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, Jason wrote:
> > If interested, please send text in plain text to john@excelco.com.  DO
> > NOT send any attachments in the form of *.DOC to me for review.  I will
> > not open them!   Principals only at this time.
> 
> Is there a linux solution (even a simply C program to strip the M$
> coding and give some decent plaintext; the M$ format files are rarely
> in a sensible order) to opening these annoying .DOC files yet?

StarOffice reads them effectively.

-- Rod
   http://www.sunsetsystems.com/