David L Norris wrote:
> 
> catdoc currently only works correctly on DOS and Unix.  It doesn't
> handle filenames correctly on Win32, apparently (clearly it only
> supports 8.3 looking at the source).
> 
> Is there an alternative?  

I use doc2txt 1.5 which can be found at
http://plaza27.mbn.or.jp/~satomii/soft/cui/doc2txt.html
It runs under WinNT (any Win32 OS) and supports long file names.

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Klaus Hollenbach
SCHOLZE Ingenieurgesellschaft mbH
E-Mail:  hollenbach@scholze.de