On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, Ralph S. Birnbaum wrote:
> Yedidya Bar-david writes:
> > 2. catdoc reads .doc and outputs text only. Sometimes this is the
> > fastest option, if you don't need the formatting...
> > at <http://mac-www.fe.msk.ru/~vitus/catdoc/>
>
> If all you need is the text sans formatting, then you can just as well
> use the Unix function 'strings' I use it all the time to quickly see
> the contents of a .doc file.
> Obviously this won't work for Hebrew docs.
>
> As for Staroffice, sometimes it works better than MSWord. I had a
> Word6 document, when I tried reading it under Word7, all the
> formatting was wrong.
> I read it under Staroffice, and it came out nicely.
>
> Once again, there is a problem with Hebrew.
> Has anyone tried taking the Hebrew fonts from MSWord and installing
> them in Staroffice?
It still won't know to print hebrew in the right direction, and when you
try to open hebrew documents, some of the times I get a wrong format
error, and others, I get giberish (don't know why the diference).
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