i tried reading a doc file through a c program and placing the content into a .txt file. but nothing appeared in the generated .txt file and its size is 0 KB.
when i tried to read a .rtf file and copied the content to .txt, the text inside the word document is coming along with some headder information.
cant we directly compare the doc files using perl?
since the encoding formats for ms word will vary vastly with the office version, it would be difficult to do.