Re: Help to view .doc files with no-word.el & antiword please

[rpd]

Hi Joost

Many thanks for your helpful replies. 
I have no got Emacs to find antiword (& it opens in cmd/dos shell)

However every MS Word .doc I open I get an error message:
- is not a Word Document

When I open a .doc file I get this message in the minibuffer:
Select coding: (default iso-8859-1):

and I just hit [RET] (which I presume accepts the default coding-whatever
that is!)

but get the above error message & the .doc does not open

Now what is the matter? Any ideas?

Thanks & best wishes


Joost Kremers wrote:
> 
> rpd wrote:
>> Hi Joost again
>> Thanks for your further help.
>> I am not quite sure what you mean here by 'Shell PATH'
>>
>> When I open cmd prompt (Vista) I get this in the shell:
>> ----
>> Microsoft Windows [Version 6.0.6001]
>> Copyright (c) 2006 Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.
>>
>> C:\Users\Dad>
>> ----
>> This directory- C:\Users\Dad - is set as my HOME directory
>> Do I need to add this directory to my PATH env?
> 
> no. the directory in which antiword.exe is located should be on your PATH.
> 
> what happens when you open a command prompt and type 'antiword'? if your
> PATH is
> properly set up, the command should be found. if not, you'll get an error.
> 
>> This is confusing to me!
>> (where win Vista puts Home & where Emacs looks for Home!
> 
> these are indeed different. but that's not relevant to your problem. emacs
> uses
> shell-command-on-region to run antiword, i.e., it starts up a DOS shell
> and
> tells it to run antiword. but the DOS shell can't find antiword.
> 
>> Emacs has its own shell!)
> 
> this is also true (at least on unix, don't know about windows, TBH) but
> also not
> relevant to the problem.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Joost Kremers                                      joostkremers@yahoo.com
> Selbst in die Unterwelt dringt durch Spalten Licht
> EN:SiS(9)
> 
> 

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