There are a couple of tools that will read doc files to some degree.
catdoc coverts to text and mswordview converts to html. If you're
using Debian you can apt-get them; if not, then Google's your uncle.
In the depths of that dark day Mon Jul 23, the words of Joel Hammer were the beacon:
> My mail is not getting through it seems, but, it will likely
> sometime.
> If you haven't got wordperfect8 or abiword, and don't want to
> fire up staroffice, the easiest command to read word97 documents
> seems to be strings.
> strings word97.doc puts out a surprisingly good looking text
> file, I have just noticed.
> In my mailcap file, I used:
> application/octet-stream;strings %s | less
> and it did just fine in mutt.
> It didn't seem to work in netscape, but I suspect some fooling
> around with it might make it work there, too.
> Joel
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