* From: "Victor B. Wagner" <vitus@agropc.msk.su>
 * Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.development.apps,
 *             comp.unix.programmer
 * Subject: CATDOC ver 0.3 (MS-Word reader for UNIX and DOS)
 *          released (source here)
 * Date: 27 Dec 1996 16:47:30 +0300
 * Reply-To: vitus@agropc.msk.su
 *
 * Hi, All!
 *
 * I've just finished third release of MS-Word to ASCII converter.
 * New features:
 *
 * 1. Some Word character can be converted into TeX control sequences
 * 2. Optionally, program can return exit code 1, if file is not in MS-Word
 *    format (application of this feature see below)
 * 3. Source code is completely rewritten to achieve more clarity.
 *
 * Missing features:
 *
 * 1. fast saves still not handled correctly.
 * 2. footnotes are viewed as separate paragrapghs at the end of text without
 *   any link to their marks (footnote marks are silently deleted)
 * 3. Nothing done with embedded illustrations and OLE objects.
 * 4. Reserved sign is translated just to (R) instead of correct TeX sequence
 * 5. Some garbage is displayed at the end (and possible at the start)
 *   of document
 *
 * Usage notes
 *
 * -t switch causes replacing of special symbols such as em-dash by
 *    TeX (LaTeX) commands instead of ASCII printable equivalents
 * -a disables effect of prevouisly specified -t
 *
 *
 * -s switch: if program cannot find MS-Word signature before
 * first pritable paragraph, it exits with code 1, supposing that it is
 * just plain text which has .doc suffix only by coincedence.
 *
 * In case of errors it returns exit code 2.
 *
 * So I write following command file to view doc files in DOS environment:
 *
 * ------------------
 * @echo off
 * rem docview.bat - viewer for files with DOC extension
 * rem uses Norton's WPVIEW.EXE
 * catdoc -s %1>%TEMP%\docview.tmp
 * if errorlevel 2 goto quit
 * if errorlevel 1 copy $1 %TEMP^%\docview.tmp
 * rem this is not winword file. Probably it is viewable without special effort
 * wpview %TEMP%\docview.tmp
 * :quit
 * del %TEMP%\docview.tmp
 * ---------------
 *
 * If you want to use this program as filter (I wonder, who would supply
 * Word file for stdin), just use dash '-' instead of file name
 *
 

[Gerard Cornu]: I have just compiled it plain (no options) with gcc
                from ADE GG2.

   email:   gcornu@serveur.dtr.fr

   http:    http://www.dtr.fr/homepage/gcornu  

   mail:    Gerard Cornu
            11, Av. E. Aynard
            69130 Ecully
            (France)

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