Re: Any way to convert Word 7 files?
FWIW I tried catdoc and in my opinion it's not very
good. I just tried it to get some old docs readable
plain text. It works OK and it gets the text out but
for me it sometimes repeated paragraphs and things
like that.
G.S.
--- Shao Zhang <shao@cia.com.au> wrote:
>
> Big programs like staroffice and wp8 can handle it
> with no problem. I havn't got time
>
> to try the following one, but it sounds like what
> you want.
>
> ii catdoc 0.33-3 MS-Word to TeX or
> plain text converter
>
>
> Anthony Campbell wrote:
>
> > On 13 Apr 1999, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> > > I've a nasty feeling the answer is going to be
> "no", but I wonder whether
> > > there is any way to convert or read a Word 7
> file on linux?
> > >
> > > Or do I have to borrow a Windows machine and
> convert it to txt?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > Thanks to all who replied about this. A lot of you
> suggested WP8 but I was
> > unable to get this to install, possibly because it
> doesn't work with kernel
> > 2.2.x. Anyway, I don't think it's worth the amount
> of disk space it would
> > take (I like vim/latex).
> >
> > Strings is a good idea; I hadn't heard of it
> previously. I'll give it a go.
> >
> > Anthony
> >
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