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["David Moberg" <davidjmoberg AT lycos.com>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "sindi keesan" <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>

> Abiword imported the doc file but wvware is CLI and converts 
> without having to go into X, open a file, and click on it.
> 
> 
> wvware filename.doc > filename.html  2 sec later you have a .png 
> file and a matching html file if you started with a page of WORD 
> consisting of just one scanned image.  How would I do this in batch 
> mode?

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#!/bin/sh
for i; do wvware $i > $i.html; done
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Suppose that you write the above to /usr/bin/wvbatch. Then add executable
permissions. Now, running wvbatch 1.doc 2.doc would be equivalent to:

wvware 1.doc > 1.doc.html
wvware 2.doc > 2.doc.html

To use a different extension than doc.html, you'd probably need a sed
script, too. 

David
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