On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 01:49:18AM +0300, Vitaly A. Repin wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 12:13:23AM +0100, Martin Schweizer wrote:
>
> > How can I see the above files with mutt(1.0.1i) on a FreeBSD-Box (4.0) without
> > StarOffice?
> > Thanks in advance.
>
> At the first, you should get the program for viewing such files. I can't say
>anything about xls files, but there is a program named "catdoc" for viewing doc
>files, produced by MS WORD.
>
> I don't keep in mind the URL of catdoc, but it seems to me, you can find it easily
>in the internet. This program was written by Vitus Wagner.
catdoc is in the FreeBSD ports collection - /usr/ports/textutils/catdoc/
The current version includes xls2csv and xlsview for viewing Excel
spreadsheets - not perfect, but way better than nothing :)
G'luck,
Peter
--
Thit sentence is not self-referential because "thit" is not a word.