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catdoc.1 mentions a "catdoc library directory" several times:

Charset file has format described in CHARACTER SETS below and should have .txt extension and reside in catdoc library directory ( /usr/lib64/catdoc). ...
[Character sets] are stored in plain text files in catdoc library directory ...
These lists [of character substitutions] are stored in catdoc library directory ...
its system-wide configuration file ( catdocrc in catdoc library directory)

But there is no /usr/lib64/catdoc. catdoc's charset .txt files and substitution .specchars files (and replacement .replchars files) are all stored in catdoc's data directory, /usr/share/catdoc on most Linux systems. And it looks for its system-wide configuration file in the usual system configuration directory (/etc on most Linux systems), not in a catdoc-specific directory.

Hello, this looks like it might be upstream for this fine package (the Wiki, FAQ, and CVStrac links at http://www.wagner.pp.ru/~vitus/software/catdoc/ are all broken).

If so, could you consider incorporating the various Debian patches and releasing a 0.96? I ran into the bug that catdoc fails on LibreOffice .doc files (RedHat bug 2150140) for which Debian has a simple patch, but it's not upstreamed so Fedora doesn't have it. Debian carries other useful patches that you might incorporate.

Thanks! If you didn't know, KDE's baloo file indexer uses KFileMetainfo which invokes catdoc, catppt, and xls2csv.

man catdoc displays

MS-Word reader     Version @catdoc_version@     catdoc(1)

instead of "Version 0.95"; the other man pages show the same.

Nothing I can see sets the ouput variable catdoc_version. However, configure.in has AC_SUBST(PACKAGE_VERSION) which sets PACKAGE_VERSION, and changing the .1.in manpage source files to use @PROGRAM_VERSION fixes this.