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Re:Pandoc by dredmorbius on Saturday February 03, 2024 @01:38AM (#39238064)
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.

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Re:Pandoc by dredmorbius on Saturday February 03, 2024 @07:23AM (#39239667)
For 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/>

A primer on lessfilter:

<https://www.miskatonic.org/2020/06/24/lessfilter/>

And lesspipe:

<https://www-zeuthen.desy.de/~friebel/unix/lesspipe.html>

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