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

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