People have started mailing me ms-word docs (groan).

[Sean 'Shaleh' Perry]

On Thursday 23 January 2003 16:34, Laura Creighton wrote:
> Saving the attatchment and then opening them with OpenOffice is getting
> tedious.  Has anybody written a python program that runs under linux
> and converts ms-word MIME attatchments to something readable?
>
> Laura Creighton

there is a program called anti-word which will convert .docs to plain text.  
Usually looks good but does not handle inline items well.