Antiword is a free MS-Word reader for Linux, BeOS and RISC OS. It converts the documents from Word 6, 7, 97 and 2000 to text and Postscript. Antiword tries to keep the layout of the document intact.
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antiword-0.33-1.i386.rpm
version 0.31 (08 Dec 2000) (size 170145 bytes)