There is a plugin that does exactly what you want called AbiCommand. Unfortunately it wasn't distributed with 1.0.0. Hopefully it will be included with 1.0.1
Even without it there are numerous command-line options. Type abiword --help, or -help Cheers Martin On Sat, 27 Apr 2002, der Mouse wrote: > I'd expect this to be a recurring question, but it didn't show up in > the FAQs on the webpages.... > > I want a command-line tool that can dump out the contents of a Word > file. Since abiword can read the silly things, it seems like a strong > candidate, but the doc up on the webpages doesn't say anything, so far > as I can see, about the command-line. > > But on the other hand, because the doc doesn't mention the command-line > _at all_, not even arguments like -display, it seems entirely possible > that such an option exists and just isn't documented. (I also don't > have GTK, but if the option exists, it would probably be easy to > lobotomize the source enough to create a command-line-only version.) > > /~\ The ASCII der Mouse > \ / Ribbon Campaign > X Against HTML [EMAIL PROTECTED] > / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B > ----------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word > unsubscribe in the message body. > ----------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
