From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2008-07-29T12:11:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Win32ole equivalent for Mac OS X

On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 04:29 +0900, Nathan Loyer wrote:
> reuben doetsch wrote:
> > Look at ruby cocoa
> 
> Is there a word .doc format reader class in Cocoa?  I wasn't aware of 
> that?

There are open source libraries that will read a Word doc. Maybe you can
interface to one of them.

*  app-text/wv
      Latest version available: 1.2.4
      Latest version installed: 1.2.4
      Unstable version:         1.2.4
      Use Flags (stable):       +wmf 
      Size of downloaded files: [no/bad digest]
      Homepage:    http://wvware.sourceforge.net/
      Description: Tool for conversion of MSWord doc and rtf files to
something readable
      License:     GPL-2

*  app-text/wv2
      Latest version available: 0.2.3
      Latest version installed: 0.2.3
      Unstable version:         0.2.3
      Use Flags (stable):       -
      Size of downloaded files: [no/bad digest]
      Homepage:    http://wvware.sourceforge.net
      Description: Excellent MS Word filter lib, used in most Office
suites
      License:     LGPL-2


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