Re: Reading .doc files from within Mutt

2001-07-27 Thread Damon Muller
Quoth [EMAIL PROTECTED], > On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 09:36:19PM +0200, Alexander Steinert wrote: > > > What is the best (simplest) way to read .doc files from within Mutt? > > > > /etc/mailcap: > > application/msword; /usr/bin/antiword '%s'; copiousoutput; > > description="Microsoft Word Text"; nam

Re: Reading .doc files from within Mutt

2001-07-27 Thread mdevin
On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 09:36:19PM +0200, Alexander Steinert wrote: > > What is the best (simplest) way to read .doc files from within Mutt? > > /etc/mailcap: > application/msword; /usr/bin/antiword '%s'; copiousoutput; > description="Microsoft Word Text"; nametemplate=%s.doc > > and (if you wan

Re: Reading .doc files from within Mutt

2001-07-23 Thread Alexander Steinert
> What is the best (simplest) way to read .doc files from within Mutt? /etc/mailcap: application/msword; /usr/bin/antiword '%s'; copiousoutput; description="Microsoft Word Text"; nametemplate=%s.doc and (if you want) ~/.vimrc: auto_view application/msword Stony

Re: Reading .doc files from within Mutt

2001-07-23 Thread Steve Mayer
antiword is great for this also. Steve On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 04:13:35PM +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote: > also sprach Jesper Holmberg (on Mon, 23 Jul 2001 12:59:00PM +0200): > > which calls the small script viewDoc, residing in my PATH: > > > > #!/bin/sh > > wvHtml $1 $1.html > > w3m -dump -T t

Re: Reading .doc files from within Mutt

2001-07-23 Thread Martin F. Krafft
also sprach Jesper Holmberg (on Mon, 23 Jul 2001 12:59:00PM +0200): > which calls the small script viewDoc, residing in my PATH: > > #!/bin/sh > wvHtml $1 $1.html > w3m -dump -T text/html $1.html > rm $1.html there is also catdoc, a debian package, which essentially does the same... martin;

Re: Reading .doc files from within Mutt

2001-07-23 Thread Jesper Holmberg
Hi Mark, I use this in my ~/.mailcap file: application/msword; ~/viewDoc %s; copiousoutput which calls the small script viewDoc, residing in my PATH: #!/bin/sh wvHtml $1 $1.html w3m -dump -T text/html $1.html rm $1.html This converts the doc file to html using wvHtml, and then converts the htm