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CATDOC ver. 0.35
Copyright(c) by Softweyr 96-98
Free converter from MS-Word to TeX or plain text.
OVERVIEW
This program extracts text from MS-Word files, trying to preserve
as much special printable characters as possible.
It doesn't even try to preserve fancy Word formatting, becouse
Word users usually don't care about document structure, and it is
this very thing, which important for LaTeX users.
Catdoc was designed to work with Cyrillic MS-Word files, so it
can convert Cyrillic from ANSI 1251 code page to KOI-8 (for UNIX)
or CP 866 (for DOS). This feature can be disabled at compile time.
SUPPORTED PLATFORMS
Catdoc was tested by author on Linux, BSDI and Solaris (gcc 2.7.x) and DOS
(Watcom C 10, 16-bit). There was also reports of successiful uses
of catdoc on Digital UNIX, HP-UX and other flavors of UNIX, and even
on Windows NT (as 32-bit console application).
I don't expect any troubles with catdoc on any platform which has
ANSI C compilier and supports notion of stdout and stderr.
SUPPORTED VERSIONS OF WORD
Catdoc was tested on files produced by MS-Word 6.0 for Windows and
MS-Word 7.0 for Window-95. It definitely doesn't work with Word-97
files, stored in UNICODE. It should also work with earlier versions
of Word, or even MS-Write but it was never tested.
LIMITATION
Doesn't handle any embedded OLE objects, including MS-Equation
Doesn't handle fastsaves and footnotes properly (modifications
and footnotes are printed at the end of text as separate paragraphs)
Can output garbage in place of OLE objects. (it is better to have
garbage, then lose part of text). Doesn't output proper table
headers in Latex mode.
LICENSE
This program is distributed under GNU Public License
Full text of this license can be obtained from:
http://www.gnu.ai.mit.edu/copyleft/gpl.html
INSTALLATION
All platforms:
Check if you need Cyrillic translation. If not so,
uncomment line
#define LATIN1
in catdoc.c
Unix
compile catdoc.c with
cc catdoc.c -o catdoc
and put resulting binary in any directory on your path.
Put manual page (catdoc.1) into appropriate directory.
If you have Tcl/Tk version 7.6 or higher you can also
install accompainiing wordview script, which is X11 interface
to catdoc. It should be installed into same directory as catdoc
itself. Edit first line of the script to point to your copy
of wish.
Dos
compile catdoc.c with your favorite C compilier and put
catdoc.exe in any directory on your path. If you use 16-bit
compilier, use small memory model
AUTHOR
Victor Wagner <vitus@fe.msk.su>