This one time, at band camp, Sandip P Deshmukh said: > hello all > > from a gui die-hard, i have started using console extensively. mutt, vim > and all :) much faster - i must say. > > off and on, i get mail having pdf files and word documents as > attachments. i have to run x and use xpdf and abiword for these. > > are there any utilities that will let me read pdf files and word > documents in console? antiword does great for word docs, and there's pstotext and ps2ascii (and ps2this and ps2that . . .), but they all seem to do a kind of spotty job here. Some files aren't properly displayed, and some aren't formatted right, and so on. If you find one that works really well for you, write back. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | Humor in the Court: Q. And lastly, | | steve@lobefin.net | Gary, all your responses must be oral. | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | O.K.? What school do you go to? A. | | | Oral. Q. How old are you? A. Oral. | --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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