                      CATDOC ver. 0.33
                Copyright(c) by Softweyr 96,97

     Free converter from MS-Word to TeX or plain text.

                          OVERVIEW

This program extracts text from MS-Word files, trying to preserve
as much special printable characters as possible. 

It doesn't even try to preserve fancy Word formatting, becouse
Word users usually don't care about document structure, and it is
this very thing, which important for LaTeX users.

Catdoc was designed to work with Cyrillic MS-Word files, so it
can convert Cyrillic from ANSI 1251 code page to KOI-8 (for UNIX)
or CP 866 (for DOS). This feature can be disabled at compile time.

                       SUPPORTED PLATFORMS

Catdoc was tested by author on Linux and Solaris (gcc 2.7.x) and DOS 
(Watcom C 10, 16-bit). There was also reports of successiful uses
of catdoc on Digital UNIX, HP-UX and other flavors of UNIX.

I don't expect any troubles with catdoc on any platform which has
ANSI C compilier and supports notion of stdout and stderr.

                     SUPPORTED VERSIONS OF WORD

Catdoc was tested on files produced by MS-Word 6.0 for Windows and
MS-Word 7.0 for Window-95. It definitely doesn't work with Word-97 
files, stored in UNICODE. It should also work with earlier versions
of Word, or even MS-Write but it was never tested. 


                   LIMITATION

Doesn't handle any embedded OLE objects, including MS-Equation
Doesn't handle fastsaves and footnotes properly (modifications
and footnotes are printed at the end of text as separate paragraphs)
Can output garbage in place of OLE objects. (it is better to have
garbage, then lose part of text). Doesn't output proper table
headers in Latex mode.

                   LICENSE

This program is distributed under GNU Public License

Full text of this license can be obtained from:
http://www.gnu.ai.mit.edu/copyleft/gpl.html

                   INSTALLATION

All platforms:

  Check if you need Cyrillic translation. If not so,
  uncomment line 
#define LATIN1
  in catdoc.c

Unix

compile catdoc.c with 

cc catdoc.c -o catdoc

and put resulting binary in any directory on your path. 
Put manual page (catdoc.1) into appropriate directory.

If you have Tcl/Tk version 7.6/4.2 or higher you can also
install accompainiing wordview script, which is X11 interface
to catdoc. It should be installed into same directory as catdoc
itself. Edit first line of the script to point to your copy
of wish.

Dos

compile catdoc.c with your favorite C compilier and put
catdoc.exe in any directory on your path. If you use 16-bit
compilier, use small memory model

                   AUTHOR

Victor Wagner <vitus@fe.msk.su>
