abiword --to <file_format> foo.doc

eg:

abiword --to abw foo.doc
abiword --to txt foo.doc
...

Try google next time.
Dom

On Sat, 2002-04-27 at 16:17, 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.)
> 
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