Re: was OT: StarOffice Rant now .doc formats

[Stephen M Lavelle]

Paul,
do a search on http://freshmeat.net for catdoc - it strips the
formatting from a MS .doc and reads as plain text. I think there is
another similar app but its name escapes me.
Regards
Stephen

Paul M. Foster wrote:
> Here's what I want to know: why hasn't someone put out an open source
> program that reads .DOC files (any version) and converts them to something
> like RTF? That way, we wouldn't need to open some huge program just to see
> what they sent us. Maybe similar with .XLS and SYLK.
> 
> Paul M. Foster
> 
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