lhalw(1)
NAME
lhalw - Have A Look at Word 6+ Files
SYNOPSIS
lhalw V0.3817 (1998/02/12) - Convert a Word 6+ doc to
text. usage: lhalw {-option [arg]} file(s)
--column s Output will have a width of maximal n
characters.
--control Keep Word's control characters.
--dest_base s Store output files based at this direc
tory ('')
--dirmode s New directories get access mode s
(0700)
--filemode s New files get access mode s (0600)
--from_stdin Take input from stdin
--log write a logfile
--no_warn No warnings.
--override Overwrite existing files.
--recurse Operate recursively on directories
--relative Store files relatively to destdir when
in recurse mode
--src_base s Regard this as start directory in rela
tive mode
--stupid Do not evaluate fastsave information.
--suffix s Output files shall get suffix 's'
(default: '.txt')
--to_stdout Write output to stdout
DESCRIPTION
Converts a Word 6+ Document simply to text.
Understands and converts Word 6 and Word 7, gets some text
out of Word 8 documents. By some purpose lhalw often sends
warn messages ("... bytes too much"). You can switch them
off with option "--warnlevel=0".
SEE ALSO
OLE::Storage
AUTHOR
- Martin Schwartz <schwartz@cs.tu-berlin.de>.