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Date:      Wed, 6 Feb 2002 11:58:14 -0500
From:      Mike Galvez <mrg8n@virginia.edu>
To:        stan <stanb@awod.com>
Cc:        Free BSD Questions list <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: is there a msword reader in ports?
Message-ID:  <20020206115814.D70132@mail.virginia.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20020206154507.GA13279@teddy.fas.com>; from stanb@awod.com on Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 10:45:07AM -0500
References:  <20020206154507.GA13279@teddy.fas.com>

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Check out antiword in /usr/ports/textproc/antiword

I use it in mutt to read word documents. It works pretty well unless
the document contains macros.

HTH

Mike

On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 10:45:07AM -0500, stan wrote:
> I've decided to use fetchmail to retrieve my company mail onto my work
> FreeBSD workstation.
> 
> Unfortunately some of it is in msword format. I'm using mutt as a reader,
> and it's pretty smart about using external programs to read files.
> 
> So, is there a msword reader, that I can use? In ports preferably.
> 
> -- 
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> neither liberty nor safety."
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