Updated 2010-11-14 06:04:12 by peterc

Microsoft Word is a word processing program, frequently distributed as a part of Microsoft Office.

"... rtf documents can also be printed with 'exec write /p $filename'".

catdoc [1] is recommended for .doc -> .txt. Other pertinent conveniences include Antiword, KOffice, OpenOffice, unoconv, Word Reaper, and Abiword.
 if {[string length Word]==4} {puts "Word is a four-letter word"} ;# :^)

The amazing PT has written a Tcl VFS [filesystem] which accesses .doc-s [2]--well, their "storage containers", more precisely; practical use still requires decoding of Word's binary data format.