Re: Command line abiword

Justin Willoughby (justin@justinw.net)
Sat, 25 Sep 1999 11:35:39 -0400

On Sat, Sep 25, 1999 at 12:39:53PM +0200, Jacques Du Pasquier wrote:
> I would very much like to be able to use the converting capabilities
> of Abiword with a "command line only" use.
>
> Something like
>
> abiword --input-type word --output-type text --output-file test.txt test.doc
>
> that would read the Word document test.doc and produce the text
> document test.txt.
>
> This would be really useful for many situations (and could in fact get
> a whole lot of new people to use abiword : the ones who do not care to
> do text processing a la Word under Unix, but who do need to read Word
> files they receive!).

There are already such tool available for Linux/Un*x

http://word2x.alcom.co.uk/

and

http://www.fe.msk.ru/~vitus/catdoc/

For example,

- Justin

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