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From: Brion Moss <brion@queeg.com>
Subject: Re: ports/5162: port submission: catdoc 
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The following reply was made to PR ports/5162; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Brion Moss <brion@queeg.com>
To: Sheldon Hearn <axl@iafrica.com>
Cc: brion@queeg.com, FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: ports/5162: port submission: catdoc 
Date: Sat, 29 Nov 1997 10:01:56 -0800 (PST)

 Sheldon Hearn writes:
 > On Thu, 27 Nov 1997 11:18:02 PST, Brion Moss wrote:
 > 
 > > 	I've created a port for catdoc, a M$ Word to ASCII translator
 > > 	and viewer.  The tarball is in
 > > 	ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD/incoming/catdoc.tgz
 > 
 > Two suggestions:
 > 
 > 1) This port uses old wish4.2 ... I'd suggest you patch it to use tk80
 >    instead.
 
 No problem.
 
 > 2) The default behaviour of catdoc when operating on Word97 documents is
 >    to spew high ASCII junk chars that trash the terminal display.
 >    Perhaps you should mention in pkg/DESCR which versions it supports
 >    and patch to cut out crapchars by default.
 
 Hmmm, I didn't even think of that.  I'll try to find a copy of Word97
 so I can check it out.  Or...could you send me a Word97 document I can
 test with?
 
 	-Brion