BSD Ports

textproc/wv 1.2.9_9 DragonFly

Library and executables to access Microsoft Word files

System
DragonFly
Repository
DPorts
Maintainer
[email protected] (as in FreeBSD)
License
GPLv2+
Categories
textproc
Package size
286.1 KiB, 1446.9 KiB installed

Description

wv is a library that allows access to Microsoft Word files. It can load and parse the Word 6-9 formats (Word 6, 95, 97, 2000).

Several converter executables called wvWare are also provided: wvHtml, wvLatex, wvCleanLatex, wvDVI, wvPS, wvPDF, wvText, wvAbw, wvWml, wvMime

Note: wvHtml was previously known as MSWordView.

In the other systems

SystemPortVersion
DragonFlytextproc/wv1.2.9_9
FreeBSDtextproc/wv1.2.9_10
OpenBSDconverters/wv1.2.9p3
NetBSDconverters/wv1.2.9nb36
MidnightBSDtextproc/wv1.2.9_9

Install

Binary package:

pkg install wv

From DPorts:

cd /usr/dports/textproc/wv && make install clean

Dependencies

Run dependencies 9

Configuration

No options to configure.

Service scripts
none

Message after installing

Some output formats (for example: DVI, PDF, and PS) require a LaTeX
implementation, such as print/teTeX, to be installed. Text output
will be of better quality if www/elinks, www/links, or www/lynx is
installed.