I believe it's freeware, but have no idea where you could get it on the
net. You'll have to do a search.
If you get it, the bottom-line solution would be to select all the text,
copy it and paste it into a text file.
Best regards,
D. McCarthy
Philip Resnik wrote:
>
> Mike, thanks for posting a solution to the problem!
>
> However, I was hoping there might be a solution to a closely related
> problem: how to get MS Word documents to text on a Unix platform!!
> Word e-mail attachments are becoming more and more frequent, and
> people seem to be assuming that the world is running on PC's. We may
> indeed reach that point, but regardless (let's not get *that*
> discussion started!), at least for the moment it would be nice if
> either (a) people would send documents around in a *portable* format,
> or (b) there were at least a convenient way to convert .DOC to .txt on
> a Unix platform. I have little hope for (a) so I'm hoping someone can
> help with (b). (I was unable to find a solution via Web searching.)
>
> I realize this question is a bit beyond the purview of the corpora
> list, though I imagine enough people in the research community work
> under Unix that it may be an issue... Still, let me suggest that
> people reply to me personally by e-mail [no Word attachments, please!
> ;-)] and I will post a summary of useful replies I receive.
>
> Best,
>
> Philip
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