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Re: Ability to read MS Word files



On Wed, Jun 02, 1999 at 14:49:55 +0000, adasoft wrote:
> I need to read the text content in a  MS Word file on NT from outside of
> MS-Word in a batch program to create a list of all the words contained in
> the document.

Assuming there is a way for you to make the files visible to a Linux system
(e.g. via SMB or mounting an NTFS partition), you could probably use
`catdoc', `word2x' and possibly `mswordview' for this.

HTH,
Ray
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