Chapter 47. Antiword
It’s a simple fact of life. Most people have not yet found their way to freedom. The best they can do is to try to make themselves as comfortable as possible in monopoly lock-in.
They suffer the burdens of the monopoly with only an occasional wince at the thought of malware, or a muffled curse because of the latest crash.
This almost always means their word processing is done with MS Word. We’ve got to learn to deal with those documents. Antiword is a very handy little tool for doing just that.
Antiword is a GPLed, multi-platform 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 ...
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