FT> I need to read info from word/wordperfect files to generate reports.
FT> At the moment there is a macro that creates an ascii dump and I pick
FT> it up from there, but the specs to read directly the files shoudl be
FT> available somewhere. Anybody has an idea where I could find it ?

I don't know about WP, but the Word file format is so called OLE compound
document which at the first sight seems to be _highly_ Windows specific
stuff. However, the OS/2 version of StarOffice reads and writes OLE
documents, so the people at Star Division might help you. Or maybe not...
:-)

        // Albert                      email: jla{at}to.icl.fi

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