On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, Jari Aalto+mail.linux wrote: > MS-Word reader which can convert documents from Word 2, 6, 7, 97, > 2000, and 2002 to text and Postscript. The layout of the document is > kept intact if possible. > > http://freshmeat.net/projects/antiword/ > > wget --non-verbose \ > http://tierra.dyndns.org:81/cygwin/antiword/antiword-0.35-1-src.tar.bz2 \ > http://tierra.dyndns.org:81/cygwin/antiword/antiword-0.35-1.tar.bz2 \ > http://tierra.dyndns.org:81/cygwin/antiword/setup.hint > > Let there be choices. Choose the one that is better suited for > *.doc: catdoc or antiword. If the other did not do well, then try with > the other. Word files differ great deal.
Jari, Whoa there, hold your horses! Next time you plan to propose a package, why not take a look at <http://cygwin.com/packages/> to see if it's maybe already there? ;-) OTOH, the current Cygwin version is 0.34... Gerrit, care to update it? Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton
