Re: Shell script for extracting text from MS Word docs

[Cameron Simpson <cs zip com au>]

On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 10:43:03AM -0500, Venkatesh, PC <PC Venkatesh occ treas gov> wrote:
| Sorry, this is a bit off-topic for this list.  Does anyone know of a shell
| script/command line method for extracting text from MS Word docs? [I.e. not
| opening the doc in abiword, etc.]. 
| And, what mailing lists might be useful for questions of this sort?  Thanks

You want the "catdoc" utility. Works just dandy.
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