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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 18 August 2003 23:47, Andrew Rogers wrote: > In an article describing the information that is hidden in MS Word > documents I found some info on converting these to text from Linux. > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3154479.stm and they also save as html and put it on the web, but guess what, it still includes the revision history hidden in the code. The easiest way to read this is to find a windows machine and reimport it into word - you can very quickly have the revision history shown in glorious colour. Not that I would ever take advantage of such a slip-up :) > The programs it mentions are 'antiword' and catdoc' wvWare is another - "man wvWare" should respond if it is on your system. You can convert to lots of different formats with this, such as html (wvHtml), pdf (wvPDF) and of course text (wvText). Very useful if you can't be bothered to fire up OpenOffice. Tony -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/QWYW+ZJrkBuz/nkRAg2FAJ0Wqzj4hva13g0VYI+IrKATxy/8yACgmFNB jHIOivYWyiS2SHCCN7EJPW8= =nACe -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.