grifo3000@interfree.it wrote:

> hi,
> i think yours is a very common trouble for us.
> personally, i prefer using simple command-line tools while i've to read some
> shitly .doc files, and i redirect them on a .txt file with the following:
>
> % catdoc text.doc > text.txt
>
> rather than install and/or emulate some software like open/staroffice, or trying
> to find harder solutions as html or tex.
> you can find catdoc(1) in the pkgsrc collection, under pkgsrc/textproc/catdoc.
>

Besides catdoc there is also antiword.  

Kindest regards, 

Tom