On 22-Jun-98 Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote: > > Hi, folks. > > Is there any way to read in my linux box a word 7 .doc file? > Mantaining the "indents" and "bolds" would be a plus, but mainly I > just need to read the text in it. > > I use StarOffice to read docs, but it only reads up to word 6 files >:^<
A rough-and-ready way to do just what you're asking is to use the "strings" command: strings wordfile.doc > wordfile.txt and then edit wordfile.txt to clean it up. Raw "strings" will skip sequences of fewer than 4 ASCII characters but these are unlikely to occur in a Word document. This method will suppress all formatting info except end-of-line, so you are likely to get long lines (= Word paragraphs). It will also fail to recognise any non-US-ASCII character codes (above 127) so accented characters and special symbols, etc, will be missed. But if you simply need to read the text content of a Word document containing plain English text, then this method works fine. Hope this helps, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 23-Jun-98 Time: 11:26:18 -------------------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
