> Is there a utility to view MS powerpoint files? Do I have to install > that monster of StarOffice for this perpose? ;^)
It depends on what you call `view'. Our secretary sometimes insists on sending lecture programs in powerpoint files per email (yuck, bleah), and all that matters is the text. In that case a simple strings <file.ppt> | less will show you the text most of the time, after you scroll through a few pages of junk. The text is usually somewhere at the bottom. Funny thing is that you can often see older versions of the text that are invisible in powerpoint. HTH, Eric -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Eindhoven Univ. of Technology Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (SKA)
