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]. ---- if {[string length Word]==4} {puts "Word is a four-letter word"} ;# :^) ---- [Category Application] [Category Windows] [Category Word and Text Processing]