wvWare (http://wvware.sourceforge.net/) is a suite of utilities for
converting Miscrosnoft Word documents to HTML, LaTeX, plain text, and
various others.  It seems to work okay out of the tarball.  Personally I'd
rather have those weenies who insist on sending me .doc files fired,
but...


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David Griffith
dgriffi@cs.csubak.edu