NAME

lhalw - Have A Look at Word 6+ Files

SYNOPSIS

usage: lhalw [options] {document}

-c n  column. Output will have a width of maximal n characters.
-C    Control chars. Keep Word's control characters.
-f    filter. Reads a document from stdin, writes it to stdout.
-F    Filter out. Writes document(s) to stdout.
-N    No warnings.
-S    Stupid. Do not evaluate fastsave information.

DESCRIPTION

Converts a Word 6+ Document simply to text.

Understands fastsaved files for Word 6 and Word 7, gets some text out of Word 8 documents.

Option -N probably is preferable to use.

SEE ALSO

OLE::Storage

AUTHOR

Martin Schwartz <schwartz@cs.tu-berlin.de>.