On Fri, 19 Jun 1998, Eric McWhorter wrote:

> NetBSD fullfills all requirements for my work that NT fullfills except one.
> I must be able to decode and view ms-word documents sent as email
> attachments.  At this point, I have to boot NT to read email, which is
> wasting a perfectly good 2 gig drive (we're not supposed to install multiple
> OS's on one hard drive here).  This must have been asked a thousand times,
> but I can't find the answer on the web page.  Can someone recommend a means
> of viewing documents spewed by office 97's ms-word?  Does the applix office
> Red Hat Linux port run on NetBSD/i386?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Eric McWhorter
> development engineer
> Xerox Special Information Systems
> emcwhorter@xsis.xerox.com
> 
> 
I recommend catdoc, MS-WORD reader for Unix. It comes in handy to read
MS-WORD attachments. The URL is:
http://askdonna.ask.uni-karlsruhe.de/hppd/hpux/Text/catdoc-0.33/man.html
You will need to get the source code for catdoc and compile it your
machine. I used gcc for my HP-UX machine and had no problems.

Thank you,
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