From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Mar 22 09:52:41 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA16556 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 22 Mar 1997 09:52:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA16541 for ; Sat, 22 Mar 1997 09:52:35 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id SAA08745 for hackers@freebsd.org; Sat, 22 Mar 1997 18:52:33 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA27615; Sat, 22 Mar 1997 18:33:24 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <19970322183324.GD15929@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Sat, 22 Mar 1997 18:33:24 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MSWord docs... References: <8205.858809260@time.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <8205.858809260@time.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Mar 19, 1997 14:07:40 -0800 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > What's the latest technology on previewing MSword stuff under FreeBSD? I've seen a utility named `catdoc' or such, that does a pretty good job extracting the meat from a Word document. It's been written by some Russian guy, i might have laying it around somewhere. It's for sure a bunch better than the old `strings docfile' previewer, but it currently hardcodes the Cyrillic or Latin-1 character tables (as a compile-time option). If you wanna pay money, Applixware for Linux (distributed by RedHat) runs fairly well on FreeBSD 2.2, and can read Word and other stuff. People keep telling me that it runs *way* faster than StarOffice. I've even heard someone claiming it runs faster on FreeBSD than on Linux *grin*. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)