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.

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