From: "Thomas D. Ward" <tward1978@earthlink.net>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: Converting ms-word files to text made very easy
Date: Fri, 2 May 2003 01:37:40 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <004301c3106c$f34b0c00$d90b9541@tward1978> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0305011358170.1445-100000@charlie.acb.org>
Cool. Thanks for the info.
----- Original Message -----
From: Charles Crawford <ccrawford@acb.org>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2003 2:03 PM
Subject: Converting ms-word files to text made very easy
> Hey Everyone, I was struggling with wordview which has a bunch of
> powerful options like making a word file into an html file, but Bill Acker
> told me about catdoc. Now this is the lazy man's heaven. All I did was
> install the rpm and use the command line argument catdoc file.doc>file.txt
> and press enter. Now I have the original doc file and a text (.txt) file
> with the name I gave it. Can life get any better? With catdoc and
> pdftotext I have solved two big problems that get in the way of someone
> trying to use a great text interface in a Windows world.
>
> 10 points for Linux and heh heh for the other guys.
>
> -- Charlie.
>
>
>
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a couple of mgetty questions Whitley GS11 Cecil H
` Gregory Nowak
` Converting ms-word files to text made very easy Charles Crawford
` Thomas D. Ward [this message]
` Luke Davis
` Thomas D. Ward
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