From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 6 8:57:31 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BCD137B4AD for ; Wed, 6 Feb 2002 08:33:35 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g16GW6S78823; Wed, 6 Feb 2002 10:32:06 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 10:32:05 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Simon Siemonsma Cc: stan , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: is there a msword reader in ports? Message-ID: <20020206163205.GB1066@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20020206154507.GA13279@teddy.fas.com> <20020206160930.23C33525@fia168-94.dsl.hccnet.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020206160930.23C33525@fia168-94.dsl.hccnet.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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