I could've sworn there was a command-line utility to do this conversion that would work, but I'm unable to find it right now...will search around some more.

Here at work we got word2x installed which works on Word6 documents (according to the manpage) but since I got no word documents at all I can't test it. Maybe have a look at http://word2x.alcom.co.uk. The README points to http://www.kfa-juelich.de/isr/1/texconv.html "for a list of other converters". As one can guess from the URL (kfa-juelich) it is a TeX-site ...

I could swear I once ran across a word-to-ascii-converter, but can't remember name or place, sorry.

Regards
Stefan K 

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