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Help with opening/viewing doc file via linux terminal

I am currently trying to open a .doc file in my workstation via terminal. This is my code:
root@ojt:/home/ojt/Desktop# cat arts_life.doc

and it gave me a bunch of unknown characters together with the contents of the doc file. What I actually want to happen is that it will open the actual file in its designated software, say for the arts_life.doc, I would like to open it in the OpenOffice.org Word Processor.

I am a totally newbie in Linux and would like to explore in it. I'm also doing some researches here Smilie

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but I will highly appreciate some help Smilie

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Thanks guys. Godspeed.

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getpt

GETPT(3)						     Linux Programmer's Manual							  GETPT(3)

NAME

       getpt - open the pseudo-terminal master (PTM)

SYNOPSIS

       #define _GNU_SOURCE
       #include <stdlib.h>

       int getpt(void);

DESCRIPTION

       getpt() opens a pseudo-terminal master and returns its file descriptor.	It is equivalent to

	   open(/dev/ptmx, O_RDWR | O_NOCTTY);

       on Linux systems, though the pseudo-terminal master is located elsewhere on some systems that use GNU Libc.

RETURN VALUE

       getpt() returns an open file descriptor upon successful completion.  Otherwise, it returns -1 and sets errno to indicate the error.

ERRORS

       getpt() can fail with various errors described in open(2).

VERSIONS

       getpt() is provided in glibc since version 2.1.

CONFORMING TO

       getpt() is glibc-specific; use posix_openpt(3) instead.

SEE ALSO

       grantpt(3), posix_openpt(3), ptsname(3), unlockpt(3), ptmx(4), pty(7)

COLOPHON

       This  page is part of release 3.25 of the Linux man-pages project.  A description of the project, and information about reporting bugs, can
       be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.

GNU
								    2008-06-14								  GETPT(3)