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antiword



My local unix guru just showed me antiword.
It is a really cool (and small and simple) utility to convert m$word files into
nicely formatted ascii text. (also postscript). It works great for hebrew too.
(I pipe the output through 'rev'. the english is reversed as well, but at least
I can read all those hebrew attachements that I used to ignore until now, and
also for english it is so much faster and better that starting a slow and
annoying gui session with openoffice or koffice)
I downloaded && installed it and it is really cool.

The website is http://www.winfield.demon.nl/
What I did was to pipe the output through |rev|more or |rev|less. for less you
should make sure that the LESSCHARSET variable is ok. (I used latin1). Also I
wrote a script to start an xterm with -fn heb8x13, so that I can easily invoke
it from my mail client (mutt).
I was impressed by this useful little utility and I hope this posting will be
useful for somebody.



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