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Linux Desktop Hacks
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Linux Desktop Hacks

by Nicholas Petreley, Jono Bacon
March 2005
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
342 pages
15h 55m
English
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View Microsoft Word Documents in a Terminal #52
Chapter 7, Terminal Empowerment
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HACK
wv, the All-Purpose Word Converter
There is a way to retain at least some of the original formatting while print-
ing the document to the screen. For this, you need a set of utilities under the
name of wvWare. You can find the home page for wvWare at http://wvware.
sourceforge.net. Packages of wvWare are readily available for almost all
Linux distributions, although the package name is usually just wv. For
example, if you don’t already have it installed on your system, you can
install wv in Debian Linux with this command:
# apt-get install wv
Users of the yum package can get the RPM version of wv with this command:
# yum install wv
w3m, the All-Purpose Web Browser/Pager
That’s not all you need for this hack. You also need a popular pager/browser
called w3m. Packages of w3m should be available for most Linux distribu-
tions, and the package name is usually w3m. For example, you can install
w3m in Debian Linux with this command:
# apt-get install w3m
Users of the yum package can get the RPM version of w3m with:
# yum install w3m
The w3m program is rather unique in that it is a web browser that works
like a pager—that is, you can pipe text into w3m and use w3m to simply
page back and forth through the text. Some versions of w3m even render
graphics in a frame-buffer console without having an X Windows desktop
running. ...
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