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wv library

last update: April 27, 2001

Most of the following description was copied from the wvware homepage http://www.wvware.com/

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... wv library, the new name of the project previously known as mswordview. Seeing as that name is far too close to Microsoft's own product named wordview the library has been renamed to wv.

wv is a library which allows access to Microsoft Word files. It can load and parse the word 2000, 97, 95 and 6 file formats. These are the file formats known internally as Word 9, 8, 7 and 6. Work is underway to support reading earlier formats as well: Word 2 docs are converted to plaintext. wv compiles and works under most operating systems, particularly Linux, BSD, Solaris, OS/2, AIX and OSF1. It is (to my knowledge) very portable. I have reports that it can be compiled under Windows using Cygwin32, and that it can compile under AmigaOS VMS with varying levels of success. It is known to compile and work on all of Abiword's supported platforms, which there are a lot of.

wv allows other programs access to Word documents for the purpose of converting them to other formats, it is currently being used by Abiword as its word importer. Concepts and bits of code are being used by the KDE folks over at KWord in their word importer.

Provided with the wv distributions is an application caled wvWare. wvWare is a "power-user" application with lots of command-line options, doo-dads, bells, and whistles. Less interesting, but more convenient are the helper scripts that utilize wvWare. These are:

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