NAME
lhalw - Have A Look at Word 6+ Files
SYNOPSIS
lhalw V0.3817 (1998/02/12) - Convert a Word 6+ doc to text. usage: lhalw {-option [arg]} file(s) --column s Output will have a width of maximal n characters. --control Keep Word's control characters. --dest_base s Store output files based at this directory ('') --dirmode s New directories get access mode s (0700) --filemode s New files get access mode s (0600) --from_stdin Take input from stdin --log write a logfile --no_warn No warnings. --override Overwrite existing files. --recurse Operate recursively on directories --relative Store files relatively to destdir when in recurse mode --src_base s Regard this as start directory in relative mode --stupid Do not evaluate fastsave information. --suffix s Output files shall get suffix 's' (default: '.txt') --to_stdout Write output to stdout
DESCRIPTION
Converts a Word 6+ Document simply to text.
Understands and converts Word 6 and Word 7, gets some text out of Word 8 documents. By some purpose lhalw often sends warn messages ("... bytes too much"). You can switch them off with option "--warnlevel=0".
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AUTHOR
Martin Schwartz <schwartz@cs.tu-berlin.de>.