wv-1.2.9

Introduction to wv

The wv package contains tools for reading information from an MS Word document.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-11.0 platform.

Install wv by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static &&
make

This package does not have a testsuite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

Installed Programs: wvSummary and several other wv* programs which are deprecated in favour of abiword: see http://wvware.sourceforge.net/

Installed Library: libwv-1.2.so

Installed Directory: /usr/share/wv

wvSummary	displays the summary information from an MS Word document
`libwv-1.2.so`	provides functions to access MS Word documents

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