Re: was OT: StarOffice Rant now .doc formats

[Paul M. Foster]

On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, Stephen M Lavelle wrote:

> 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.

I can write a perl script to do that. The formatting is really the point.
I'm just surprised no one has done a program like this. There's sgml2html,
html2latex, etc. etc., but nothing to do this.

Paul

> 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.
> > 


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