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less filters are another highly underappreciated tool. Back in the day there were a couple of utilities (I think they were "catdoc" and "wordview") which could
by dredmorbius 3y ago
less filters are another highly underappreciated tool.
Back in the day there were a couple of utilities (I think they were "catdoc" and "wordview") which could take MS Word input and generate text-only output. Good for reading MS Word attachments in mutt or from a terminal / console / SSH session.
- dredmorbius 3y agoFor those curious / on a nostalgia trip, "mswordview" was the name at the time. The project lives as the wvWare library, which reads and parses MS Word 2000, 97, 95, and 6 file formats: <https://wvware.sourceforge.net/ https://wvware.sourceforge.net/> A primer on lessfilter: <https://www.miskatonic.org/2020/06/24/lessfilter/ https://www.miskatonic.org/2020/06/24/lessfilter/> And lesspipe: <https://www-zeuthen.desy.de/~friebel/unix/lesspipe.html https://www-zeuthen.desy.de/~friebel/unix/lesspipe.html>