.doc files on Mac OS 9

Can somebody please help me find a really really good free program that can open .doc files?

Hi, elsa71923. The program(s) I linked above, icWord and icExcel ($20 each, $30 for both) have the following capabilities:
"Use icWord or icExcel to easily open on your Mac any of the following files:
Word (version 6 to 2004)
Excel (version 95 to 2004)
PowerPoint
AppleWorks (version 5 or 6)
ClarisWorks (version 5)
The display on your screen matches the original, showing you the document as it was created on a Macintosh or a PC.
Use icWord or icExcel to:
View documents
Convert to other formats
Copy/Paste text and graphics into other applications
Print documents"
icWord will not translate files from other word processing formats into .doc format, except the AppleWorks and ClarisWorks documents mentioned in the above-quoted blurb. And icWord is not a word processor; it's just a viewer, with the addition of those very limited file-translation capabilities. You can't revise a Word document in icWord and send it back to the person who gave it to you with your revisions in it, nor can you create new documents from scratch in icWord. For that you need a real word processor and a real file-translation utility like MacLink Plus Deluxe, which Don has mentioned above. But for the person who doesn't have Word and needs to view documents in .doc file format, exactly as they were created, icWord is a good solution. And as I wrote above, you can download it, use it free for 30 days to see whether it meets your needs, and only then decide whether or not to buy it.
RagTime is a powerful page-layout and desktop publishing program, developed in Europe and better known there than elsewhere. I suspect it's much more complicated than what you need, but as Michael says, it's completely free (the RagTime Solo version, for private use only), so you can try it out and see what you think.

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