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Re: Help to view .doc files with no-word.el & antiword please
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rpd |
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Re: Help to view .doc files with no-word.el & antiword please |
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Tue, 25 Aug 2009 04:51:51 -0700 (PDT) |
Joost
Thanks for your further advice but when I try M-x no-word-find-file
I get this error message:
I can't open '~/Charliemissing.doc' for reading
(am I in the right directory? it should be C:\Users\Dad\Charliemissing.doc)
Anymore ideas?
Joost Kremers wrote:
>
> rpd wrote:
>>
>> 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
>
> mmm... on unix, the dash usually means standard input, so what i think is
> happening is that no-word calls antiword and tries to pipe the .doc file
> to it,
> but antiword doesn't understand, it thinks it needs to process a file
> named `-'.
> it could be that the windows port of antiword doesn't support reading from
> stdin.
>
> what happens if you try to open a file with M-x no-word-find-file rather
> than
> with C-x C-f? i suspect that should work better.
>
>
> --
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- Help to view .doc files with no-word.el & antiword please, rpd, 2009/08/23
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