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Re: [ITP] antiword-0.35 - New package


On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, Jari Aalto+mail.linux wrote:

> MS-Word reader which can convert documents from Word 2, 6, 7, 97,
> 2000, and 2002 to text and Postscript. The layout of the document is
> kept intact if possible.
>
> http://freshmeat.net/projects/antiword/
>
> wget --non-verbose  \
>   http://tierra.dyndns.org:81/cygwin/antiword/antiword-0.35-1-src.tar.bz2 \
>   http://tierra.dyndns.org:81/cygwin/antiword/antiword-0.35-1.tar.bz2 \
>   http://tierra.dyndns.org:81/cygwin/antiword/setup.hint
>
> Let there be choices. Choose the one that is better suited for
> *.doc: catdoc or antiword. If the other did not do well, then try with
> the other. Word files differ great deal.

Jari,

Whoa there, hold your horses!  Next time you plan to propose a package,
why not take a look at <http://cygwin.com/packages/> to see if it's maybe
already there? ;-)

OTOH, the current Cygwin version is 0.34...  Gerrit, care to update it?
	Igor
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