I just checked the program antiword from contrib's rpms 
(antiword-0.31-2). I believe it would be more suggestive to replace the 
converter on Midnight Commander for *.doc extensions as most documents 
today are made in more recent formats. For quite a long time the mc.ext 
shows word2x as the *.doc format converter. However this tool converts 
only Word95 at most.

For the penguin community this may sound superfluous. Well there is the 
excellent wv tool, but converting to raw text with its help is not 
suitable to mc. This may be a minor problem as one may fastly convert to 
a mc readable format and then use mc to sort things out. However, when 
one gets five tons of word docs, it is easier to sort out the mess using 
directly mc capabilities without hurdles.

Ektanoor


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