“It’s a simple fact of life. Most people have not yet found
their way to freedom, and instead try to make themselves as
comfortable as they can be in captivity. They suffer the burdens of
the monopoly with only an occasional wince at the thought of
malware or a curse because of their latest crash. This almost
always means their word processing is done with MS Word. We’ve got
to learn to deal with them, and their documents. Antiword is a very
handy little tool for doing just that. Shake the cobwebs of the GUI
out of your head and meet me at the CLI and I’ll show you how to
use it.“Antiword is a GPLd, multiplatform labor of love by Adri van Os,
with assistance from others in porting and making it available on
RISC OS, FreeBSD, BeOS, OS/2, Mac OS/X, Amiga, VMS, NetWare, Plan
9, Epic, Zaurus, DOS, and Windows. Those in addition to Linux/Unix,
of course…”
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