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>