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Re: Reading Win XP MSWord document



On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 04:40:43PM +0200, Alexandros Papadopoulos wrote:
   > On Friday 04 February 2005 16:05, Jianan wrote:
   > > Hi,
   > > I am sure many of you have received MSWord doc in your email.
   > 
   > Ah, the horror! http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
   > 
   > > Which is the right editor or word processor to read it? 
   > 
   > If you can help it, /dev/null.
   > 
   > Otherwise, apt-get install openoffice.org
   > 
Would like suggest an alternative way to look at it.  For quick view of
the contents I always use 

   antiword dumb.doc | less

The tabular columns are neatly lined up. It is apt-gettable.

Regards,

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