[Gllug] Word to text

[Richard Cohen]

Wvware - www.wvware.com - is also pretty commonly used to do that kind of
thing...

Cheers
Richard

On Wed, 25 Jul 2001 john.hearns at framestore.co.uk wrote:

> At the Geek Meet on Saturday the topic of
> Word format to text translation came up.
>
> For the life of me I couldn't remember the
> utility I use for that.
>
> It is  catdoc  http://www.ice.ru/~vitus/catdoc/
> Basically feed it a Word doscument and it outputs
> text to standard out.
>
> I also see on that page xls2csv, which deals with
> Excel spreadsheets.
>
> So anyone (such as Dean, hint hint) who is thinking
> of making tools to automate handling of Word docs
> should at least try this out.
>
> John H.
> ps. apologies to all of you who use catdoc on
> a daily basis.



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