As prodded in pkg PR 8647 by Jaromir Dolecek.
Changes from old pkgsrc version:
0.90.1 Nov 26 1998
Top-level Makefile now uses $MAKE instead of make
fixed missing end-line escaping in wordview.tcl
All occurences of strcpy, strcat and sprinf investigated
to avoid buffer overflows.
0.90 Oct 29 1998
Fixed bug with charset names redeclared locally in main()
Fixed problem in configure with wish 8.0.3
Catdoc considered to be stable enough for release
0.90b5 Oct 14 1998
Fixed handling of 0x1F char (soft hyphen in Word 6.0),
now it is translated to 0x00AD (unicode soft hyphen)
Fixed permissions for manual page
Added --with-install-root configure arg to simplify
building of binary packages.
0.90b4 September 17 1998
Added proper configuration of library dir in wordview.
Added --disable-charset-check config option
Added 0x2026 symbol in ascii.rpl
Added more Windows codepages in distribution
0.90b3 September 11 1998
Added -x switch to simplify debugging of substitution maps
0.90b2 September 10 1998
Added some symbols is 0x2000-0x20FF range to substituton maps
These symbols occurs in cp1251 so they are frequently found
in Word files. Fixed some filename-handling problems in
wordview.tcl
0.90b1 September 8 1998
Added us-ascii.charset, fixed small bugs in confugre,
install is used for all installation files. Code is
considered stable enough to be beta.
0.90a3 September 7 1998
Fixed small bug in table handling, which caused catdoc to
output extra column delimiter just before row delimiter. Added
autoconf configuration. install is back, although not for
charsets
0.90a2 August 18 1998
version 0.90 was tested on BSDI and Solaris platform. Makefile
was rewritten to avoid use of highly incompatible
/usr/{ucb,bin}/install
0.90a1 August 13 1998
Catdoc undergone major rewrite. Now it has proper charset
handling, including UNICODE and runtime configurability.