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From: dae@shire.cs.psu.edu (Dave Eckhardt)
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Subject: Microsoft Word parser?
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Date: 24 May 89 02:07:48 GMT
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I am faced with a large file in Microsoft Word format.  I need to be
able to turn this into a text file, but with some degree of control.
In other words, I need to be able to do something like turning all
italicized letters into upper case.  Best would be a piece of code that
would call a user-provided routine with various tokens (like
enter_italic or footnote) so that I could write back ends for various
purposes.

Since I don't have any version of C or Pascal for the Mac (I'm used to
Unix, where the compilers are free, sigh), I'd need either pointers to
a good cheap langauge implementation or code that could be made to run
under a non-Mac environment.

Any suggestions would be useful; if you have any or want to know what
I've found out, please send me mail directly.  Thanks.

--Daemon