On 2006/12/23 22:18 (GMT+0100) Carlos E. R. apparently typed:

> The Saturday 2006-12-23 at 15:00 -0500, Felix Miata wrote:

>> Which app do we have to strip the glop from a M$ .doc file and
>> output just the content to a plain text file? OO print to file
>> doesn't seem to understand anything but postscript. Do I need to
>> "install" a "text printer"?

> Summary     : library to import Microsoft Word documents Description
> : The wv2 library is used to import Microsoft Word documents in
> koffice for example.

> Summary     : Word 8 Converter for Unix Description : WV is a program
> that can understand the Microsoft Word 8 binary file format
> (Office97). It currently converts Word into HTML, which can then be
> read with a web browser.

> (and there are html to text converters, I think).

I installed wv and wv2 with YaST, but they haven't shown up in the
menus, and wv from konsole gives command not found, even though rpm
claims they're installed. I can't find wv in /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin or
/usr/sbin. :-(
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