changing doc to txt

[Willem van der Walt<willem@top.health.gov.za>]

The man page is not clear on this.
The easyest is to try it as catdoc is small to download and
sofar has compiled without problems on both solaris and linux.
Regards, Willem

On Fri, 5 Mar 2004 awesome-dave1 at juno.com wrote:

> Hi,
> 	Does catdoc work with office 2k documents or is it just for 97?
> Thanks.
> Dave.
> 
> 
> On Fri, 5 Mar 2004 10:13:47 +0200 (SAST) "Willem van der
> Walt<willem at top.health.gov.za>" <willem at top.health.gov.za> writes:
> > catdoc does exactly what you want.
> > Mail me privatly if you want a copy or search for it on google.
> > It works like the unix/linux cat command, but converts a ms doc file 
> > to 
> > text
> > if the file you are catting is such a file.
> > hth Willem
> > 
> > On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, Scott Berry wrote:
> > 
> > > Are there any programs to change doc to txt or allow me to read a 
> > doc
> > > file?
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
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