Re: Star Office

[mmiller3@iupui.edu (Michael A. Miller)]

>>>>> "Shane" == Shane  <Shane> writes:

    > I need to read a MS Word document.  Are there any other
    > software in Debian for viewing a MS Word doc?.

Catdoc may help.  

Mike

P.S.  It's partner, xls2csv, is also very handy for extracting
fields from excel files.



> dpkg --status catdoc
Package: catdoc
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: text
Installed-Size: 636
Maintainer: Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>
Version: 0.91.4-1
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1.2)
Suggests: wish
Conffiles:
 /etc/catdocrc d1470cea126a7a524089fb4da51ab0fe
Description: MS-Word to TeX or plain text converter
 This program extracts text from MS-Word files, trying to preserve
 as many special printable characters as possible. catdoc supports
 everything up to Word-97.
 .
 It doesn't even try to preserve fancy Word formatting, because
 Word users usually don't care about document structure, and it is
 this very thing which is important to LaTeX users.
 .
 Also provided is xls2csv, which extracts data from Excel spreadsheets
 and outputs it in comma-separated-value format.
 .
 This package suggests 'wish' because it also includes wordview, an
 optional Tk-based GUI for catdoc.  The MIME config provided in this
 package will use wordview is X is running, or catdoc directly if it
 is not.