[ale] reading MS Word files

[Newcombe at mordor.clayton.edu (Dan Newcombe)]

On Sun, 18 Apr 1999, Ben Phillips wrote:
> Is there an msword-2-text utility out there for linux?  Or something with
> equivalent functionality?

I am using something called mswordview (don't remember where I got it)
that converts a word document to html.  For stuff I get in word via pine,
it converts it and kicks off lynx to view it all at once.  Works great.

	-Dan