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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Help with opening/viewing doc file via linux terminal Post 302578339 by vbe on Thursday 1st of December 2011 10:24:51 AM
Old 12-01-2011
You can't just open a .doc like that... (we are talking of microsoft word extension right?).
You would have to find a tool, I used to use catdoc ... search in the opensource catalog!
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wordview(1)						      General Commands Manual						       wordview(1)

NAME
wordview - displays text contained in MS-Word file in X window SYNOPSIS
wordview [ filename] DESCRIPTION
wordview is simple GUI wrapper around catdoc(1) which allows to browse through word file interactively. It doesn't allow to edit file, but allows to save plain text representation (or version with some TeX commands) into the file. If for some reason catdoc doesn't recognize file encoding properly, wordview allows to specify encoding interactively. OPTIONS
wordview supports standard X options, supported by wish(1) X RESOURCES
Following X resources can be used to customize wordviewlook: Wordview.Text.Background background color for main window Wordview.Text.Foreground Foreground color for main window Wordview.Text.selectBackground Background color of selected text Wordview.Text.selectForeground Foreground color of selected text Wordview.Text.Font Font to display text. We recommend to use fixed-width font, such as Courier, because catdoc(1) is intended to convert Word into text. Either XLFD font names or Tk-style font specifications like {Courier 12pt} can be used for specifying font. If you use XLFD font names, usage of unicode (iso10646-1) fonts is recommended. Wordview.Text.findMode How to search text. This option can have value either exact or regexp and specifies whether text is searched for exact match or for regular expression by default. This behavior can be toggled interactively via checkbox in the search dialog. Wordview.Text.findCase This boolean option controls whether search is case-sensitive. Default is no. Wordview.Menu.highlightBackground Background color for highlighted menu item Wordview.Menu.highlightThickness Wordview.Menu.activeBackground Background color of active menu item. Wordview.Menu.activeBorderWidth Width (in pixels) of border around highlighted menu item. Default is 0, which differs from Tk global default. See options(n) for more details. A lot of other resource options which affect behavoir of standard Tk widgets can affect wordview. See Tcl/Tk manual pages for more informa- tion. SEE ALSO
catdoc(1),wish(1),options(n) AUTHOR
Victor Wagner <vitus@45.free.net>. MS-Word reader Version 0.94.4 wordview(1)
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