From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Sat Apr 27 2002 - 21:37:32 EDT
There is a plugin that does exactly what you want called
AbiCommand. Unfortunately it wasn't distributed with 1.0.0. Hopefully it
will be included with 1.0.1
Even without it there are numerous command-line options. Type abiword
--help, or -help
Cheers
Martin
On Sat, 27 Apr 2002, der Mouse wrote:
> I'd expect this to be a recurring question, but it didn't show up in
> the FAQs on the webpages....
>
> I want a command-line tool that can dump out the contents of a Word
> file. Since abiword can read the silly things, it seems like a strong
> candidate, but the doc up on the webpages doesn't say anything, so far
> as I can see, about the command-line.
>
> But on the other hand, because the doc doesn't mention the command-line
> _at all_, not even arguments like -display, it seems entirely possible
> that such an option exists and just isn't documented. (I also don't
> have GTK, but if the option exists, it would probably be easy to
> lobotomize the source enough to create a command-line-only version.)
>
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