Re: Ability to read MS Word files

[Daniel González Gasull <gasull@altavista.net>]

Hi!

"J.H.M. Dassen" <jdassen@wi.leidenuniv.nl> wrote:

> 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.

I recommend catdoc.

Hope this helps. 

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