Microsoft Word is a word processing program, frequently distributed as a part of Microsoft Office.
"... rtf documents can also be printed with 'exec write /p $filename'".
catdoc is recommend for .doc -> .txt.
What is catdoc? - Google is your friend: http://www.45.free.net/~vitus/software/catdoc/ , which states that catdoc reads Microsoft Word documents and outputs text. - See also Word Reaper.
if {[string length Word]==4} {puts "Word is a four-letter word"} ;# :^)The amazing PT has written a Tcl VFS filesystem which accesses .doc-s [L1 ]--well, their "storage containers", more precisely; practical use still requires decoding of Word's binary data format.
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