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From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
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Subject: Re: MS Word documents (was: Advice sought on PnP configuration)
In-Reply-To: <199707312234.IAA07578@freebie.lemis.com> from Greg Lehey at "Aug 1, 97 08:04:31 am"
To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey)
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 18:06:56 -0500 (EST)
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> 
> I've heard conflicting things about StarOffice.  But it's not what I'm
> looking for: I'm looking for a program, UNIX-style, which converts MS
> Word format to something readable.  It could, for example, be used to
> read MS Word mail attachments.
> 
> Greg
> 
Have you heard of laola???  It can pull apart the directory structure
of the MS file format.  The ascii text is still rough, but is alot
better than the original file:

http://wwwwbs.cs.tu-berlin.de/~schwartz/pmh/laola.html

Hope this helps.

John