Thanks to everyone who replied, here are the best solutions I've got:-
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 13:23:13 +0100 (BST)
From: William Flett <will_at_dcs.rhbnc.ac.uk>
To: Jonathan Nicholson <jjn_at_sanger.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Viewing encoded mail messages...
On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, Jonathan Nicholson wrote:
|> Hi, this is a bit of a long shot, but does anyone know of a way of viewing
|> M$ Word documents on Digital Unix?
|
| Dear Jon,
|
| Here's an extract from message about that very thing:
|
|<Nevertheless, there are times when it is still necessary to handle
|<Word documents in some way. In which case, some people may be unaware
|<of the excellent Perl stuff available at
|<
http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~schwartz/pmh/laola.html
This program works well at converting the document to plain text, part of
it (elser) will also break password protection!
From: Serge MUNHOVEN <munhoven_at_mema.ucl.ac.be>
[snip]
|Source: CTAN/support/catdoc/{catdoc.[c1],README.catdoc,wordview}
|Config: Uncommented #define LATIN1 in catdoc.c
| $ make catdoc
| A lot of warnings about incompatible signed and unsigned char
| referenced type of the pointers. Ignored.
| wordview requires Tcl/Tk version 7.6 or higher
|
|If you don't expect word-processing, this might already help in some
|cases.
This program also works well at converting to plain text, includes a text
file viewer, which while fast isn't particularly clever at formating...
Thanks again for the replies...
Jonathan
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