This cool tip show how to read MS word docs from the prompt without using Bochs or Vmware, we'll use wvHtml and links ; wvHtml $1 $1.html ; links $1.html ; rm $1.html the Html output is readable too with lynx from the blax box, works with Ms excel too !
N.B : this tip were transltaed from french [DLFP] the source is here ->
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Nice tip, you could also use Antiword to convert msword documents to postscript or text.