this file:  http://www.frankb.us/stuff/antiword/antiword-readme

antiword project website:  http://www.winfield.demon.nl/index.html

antiword-0.33-1.i386.rpm was built by E Frank Ball on a RedHat 7.2 system.

This is a blazing fast msword to text converter that easily integrates
into elm, mutt, and netscape.

copy antiword to your ~/bin directory.
copy antiword.1 to your ~/man/man1 directory.
make a ~/.antiword directory and copy 8859-1.txt and fontnames to it.

For elm or mutt put this in your ~/.mailcap file as the FIRST msword entry:
application/msword ; antiword %s ; copiousoutput

For netscape put this in your ~/.mailcap file as the LAST msword entry:
application/msword ; antiword-net %s

and in your ~/bin directory make a file called antiword-net:
#!/bin/sh
/bin/rm ~/word.txt
~/bin/antiword -s $1 > ~/word.txt
xterm -geometry 90x44 -e less ~/word.txt

In .muttrc add it to the auto_view line:
auto_view text/html application/msword