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Antiword is a free MS Word reader for Linux and RISC OS.There are ports to FreeBSD, BeOS, OS/2, Mac OS X, Amiga, VMS, NetWare, Plan9,EPOC, Zaurus PDA, MorphOS, Tru64/OSF, Minix, Solaris and DOS. Antiword convertsthe binary files from Word 2, 6, 7, 97, 2000, 2002 and 2003 to plain text andto PostScript ^TM.

Code:


bash-3.1# antiword
    Name: antiword
    Purpose: Display MS-Word files
    Author: (C) 1998-2005 Adri van Os
    Version: 0.37  (21 Oct 2005)
    Status: GNU General Public License
    Usage: antiword [switches] wordfile1 [wordfile2 ...]
    Switches: [-f|-t|-a papersize|-p papersize|-x dtd][-m mapping][-w #][-i #][-Ls]
        -f formatted text output
        -t text output (default)
        -a <paper size name> Adobe PDF output
        -p <paper size name> PostScript output
          paper size like: a4, letter or legal
        -x <dtd> XML output
          like: db (DocBook)
        -m <mapping> character mapping file
        -w <width> in characters of text output
        -i <level> image level (PostScript only)
        -L use landscape mode (PostScript only)
        -r Show removed text
        -s Show hidden (by Word) text
bash-3.1#