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poor man's m$word reader




regarding some people mentioning reading doc files under unix, the only
free utility i've found that comes a little way towards achiving that is
called 'catdoc'. it can print the text-part of word6 (maybe also word7)
files (NOT rtf files), with some readable format.

not what i'd give my mother to use, but if you get this word6 attachment
and want to just be able to see what the person is talking about (Some
don't even put a proper subject line), that could save the travel to your
neighbourhood's m$windows PC...

just look for 'catdoc' on any search engine. i can also mail it upon
request, it's a rather small thing (single source file, man, readme...).

guy