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 
[http://www.45.free.net/~vitus/software/catdoc/] is recommended for .doc -> .txt.  Other pertinent conveniences include Antiword,
KOffice, OpenOffice, unoconv, [Word Reaper], and Abiword.


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 if {[string length Word]==4} {puts "Word is a four-letter word"} ;# :^)
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The amazing [PT] has written a [Tcl] [VFS] [filesystem] which accesses 
.doc-s
[http://www.patthoyts.tk/tclstorage/]--well, their "storage containers", 
more precisely; practical use still requires decoding of Word's binary
data format.
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