>>>>> "Shane" == Shane <Shane> writes:
> I need to read a MS Word document. Are there any other
> software in Debian for viewing a MS Word doc?.
Catdoc may help.
Mike
P.S. It's partner, xls2csv, is also very handy for extracting
fields from excel files.
> dpkg --status catdoc
Package: catdoc
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: text
Installed-Size: 636
Maintainer: Bdale Garbee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Version: 0.91.4-1
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1.2)
Suggests: wish
Conffiles:
/etc/catdocrc d1470cea126a7a524089fb4da51ab0fe
Description: MS-Word to TeX or plain text converter
This program extracts text from MS-Word files, trying to preserve
as many special printable characters as possible. catdoc supports
everything up to Word-97.
.
It doesn't even try to preserve fancy Word formatting, because
Word users usually don't care about document structure, and it is
this very thing which is important to LaTeX users.
.
Also provided is xls2csv, which extracts data from Excel spreadsheets
and outputs it in comma-separated-value format.
.
This package suggests 'wish' because it also includes wordview, an
optional Tk-based GUI for catdoc. The MIME config provided in this
package will use wordview is X is running, or catdoc directly if it
is not.
