catdoc has been added to the cygwin distribution.
It features 4 binaries, catdoc, xls2csv, catppt and
wordview to list the content of MS-Word, Excel and Powerpoint files.
Please forgive the upstream author for the hairy spelling errors
in the docs.

http://www.45.free.net/~vitus/software/catdoc/

I attached the README for full info.

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