Short:    Converts Word 2,4,5,6,7,8 files to text,HTML or AmigaGuide.Update.
Author:   docent@union.org.pl (Peter Drapich)
Uploader: docent@union.org.pl (Peter Drapich)
Type:     text/misc
Replaces: WordConverter.lha

Word Converter is  a  useful  tool  for  everybody,  who is looking for the
possibility  to read documents, created with Word - a famous word processor
by  Microsoft,  available  on  Wintel  and  Mac  platforms.  Thanks to Word
Converter,  you are able to convert documents created with Word for Windows
version  2,, 6,  7 and 8 and Word 4, 5 for Mac to plain text, AmigaGuide or
HTML  document,  or even import them directly into PageStream 3 or CygnusEd
text editor through additional ARexx scripts.
Check  also  Word  Converter  support  pages at http://docent.union.org.pl.
Versions  for  Linux,  Digital Unix (DEC Alpha) and Windows95 are available
from this site.

This is the updated evaluation version 0.9.6 of Word Converter.

                               Key Features

 - Simple,  intuitive way of converting Word documents.
 - Converts documents, created with Word for Windows version 2, 6, 7 and 8.
 - Converts documents, created with Word 4, 5 for Mac.
 - Converts documents, created with Word for DOS (hopefully).
 - Document can be converted to ASCII text, HTML and AmigaGuide.
 - Works as a command line tool too.
 - Additional  ARexx  scripts  allow easy import of Word document directly
   into PageStream 3 or CygnusEd text editor.
 - Context help (requires Kickstart 3.0)
 - Localised.
 - Quite stable.


                                  History
 » version 0.9.6
   · NEW: Versions for Linux, Digital Unix (DEC Alpha), Windows95 updated or
          added. Check out http://docent.union.org.pl for updates!
   · NEW: Added support for Word 7, Word 8 documents and their variations.
   · FIX: Fixed a bug, which appeared on machines with 64bit processors.
   · FIX: Fixed a bug in Unix version, which generated a segmentation fault
          and core dump on machines with little endian processors like Intel
          or Alpha. It worked fine on others :). gdb sucks.
   · ADD: French localisation done by Jerome Chesnot. Thanks!
   · ADD: German localisation done by Ralf Assmann and René Zingler.Thanks!
   · ADD: Italian localisation done by Matteo Cortese. Thanks!
   · ADD: Spanish localisation done by Dámaso Domínguez and Tomás Cantó. Thanks!
   · ADD: Swedish localisation and manual translation done by Henrik Nilsson
          and Johan Alfredsson. Thanks guys!