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 is recommend for .doc -> .txt.

''What is catdoc?'' - [Google] is your friend: http://www.45.free.net/~vitus/software/catdoc/ , which states that catdoc reads Microsoft Word documents and outputs text. - See also [Word Reaper].

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 if {[string length Word]==4} {puts "Word is a four-letter word"} ;# :^)
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The amazing [PT] has write a [Tcl] [VFS] [filesystem] which accesses 
.doc-s
[http://www.patthoyts.tk/tclstorage/].
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[Category Application] |
[Category Windows] |
[Category Word and Text Processing]
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