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Tiarnan <tiarnan.ocorrain@cmg.com> on 11/07/02 has said :

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> does anyone know is there is an emacs mode to read MS word documents
> (sent by colleagues), as ASCII. I'm thinking of something along the
> lines of antiword, which produces text from MS Word (and even keeps
> tables and so on).

A friend of mine does :

                       C-u M-! strings toto.doc

That's a bit ugly ;-), but that's work when the word document is cheap...

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Julien ``Eole'' Avarre
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