Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 10:32:05 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Simon Siemonsma <simon.freebsd@hccnet.nl> Cc: stan <stanb@awod.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: is there a msword reader in ports? Message-ID: <20020206163205.GB1066@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20020206160930.23C33525@fia168-94.dsl.hccnet.nl> References: <20020206154507.GA13279@teddy.fas.com> <20020206160930.23C33525@fia168-94.dsl.hccnet.nl>
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In the last episode (Feb 06), Simon Siemonsma said: > On Wednesday 06 February 2002 16:45, you wrote: > > I've decided to use fetchmail to retrieve my company mail onto my > > work FreeBSD workstation. > > > > Unfortunately some of it is in msword format. I'm using mutt as a > > reader, and it's pretty smart about using external programs to read > > files. > > > > So, is there a msword reader, that I can use? In ports preferably. > > There also excists something like wv (orignally mswordview) see > www.wvware.com wv is in ports, btw. It's a bit flaky though. You can use catdoc (in ports), which will always work but doesn't give as nice output. In .mailcap: #application/msword; catdoc ; copiousoutput ; test=test -z "$LYNX_VERSION" application/msword; wvText %s %s.txt \; cat %s.txt \; rm -f %s.txt ; copiousoutput ; test=test -z "$LYNX_VERSION" In .muttrc: auto_view application/msword -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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