diff --git a/filters/application/msword_filter b/filters/application/msword_filter
index ef9bb4c..95d73da 100755
--- a/filters/application/msword_filter
+++ b/filters/application/msword_filter
@@ -1,17 +1,14 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 
-tmpdir=${TMPDIR-/tmp}
-tmpdir="$tmpdir"/tmpdir.$$
+tmpdir=`mktemp -td tracker.msword_filter.XXXXXXXXXX` || exit 1
 
-tmptxtfile=`mktemp`
+tmptxtfile=`mktemp` || exit 1
 
-(umask 077 && mkdir "$tmpdir") || exit 1
-
-tmpfile="$tmpdir"/tmpfile.$$
+tmpfile="$tmpdir"/tmpfile
 
 cp "$1" "$tmpfile"
 
-# Change the working directory to $tmpdir which we can safely deleter later.
+# Change the working directory to $tmpdir which we can safely delete later.
 # Some distributions ship a version of wvText which extracts the image files
 # from the word document and places them in the current working directory.
 
@@ -19,6 +16,8 @@ cd "$tmpdir"
 
 nice -n19 wvText "$tmpfile" "$tmptxtfile"
 
+cat "$tmptxtfile"
+
 rm -rf "$tmpdir"
 rm "$tmptxtfile"