mswordview?

mswordview?

[Greg Stark]

Before I start doing this does anyone have a viewer using mswordview to expand
word attachments into html and the run w3 on them?

-- 
greg

Re: mswordview?

[Colin Rafferty]

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Greg Stark writes:

> Before I start doing this does anyone have a viewer using mswordview to expand
> word attachments into html and the run w3 on them?

There is a thread on gnus.emacs.vm.info about the same question in
VM-land.  First, you will need a script to turn mswordview into a real 
filter.  This is what Kyle Jones wrote:

#!/bin/sh

trap 0 "rm -f /tmp/$$"
cat > /tmp/$$
mswordview /tmp/$$

Then, you need to hook it up the Gnus.  This is how you do in in VM,
and I imagine that Gnus has similar variables.


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From: kyle_jones@wonderworks.com (Kyle Jones)
Subject: more on mswordview
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 12:02:14 -0700
Message-ID: <14332.60982.751958.952841@crystal.WonderWorks.COM>

Dave Bakhash writes:
 > has anyone actually gone through, from start to finish, making VM use
 > mswordview and w3 so that you can actually view MS Word documents
 > inside XEmacs/VM using mswordview to convert to HTML and then starting 
 > w3?  I can do this, but the code will take a while.

It should be simple.  Use vm-mime-type-converter-alist to convert 
application/msword (or whatever) to text/html.  If w3-region is a 
defined function VM will automatically use it to display the
resulting HTML.  The only problem that I know of is that
mswordview does not accept input from stdin.  So you need a
wrapper script to collect the input into a file and hand the file 
to mswordview.

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A shell script wrapper around mswordview would achieve the
desired effect, probably.

Re: mswordview?

[Jonas Steverud]

Colin Rafferty <craffert@ms.com> writes:

[...]
> From: kyle_jones@wonderworks.com (Kyle Jones)
> Subject: more on mswordview
> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.vm.info
[...]
> The only problem that I know of is that
> mswordview does not accept input from stdin.

/dev/fd/0 is stdin. Might be useful.
(/dev/fd/1 is stdout and /dev/fd/2 is left as an exercise to the
reader.)

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Re: mswordview?

[Florian Weimer]

Jonas Steverud <d4jonas@dtek.chalmers.se> writes:

> > The only problem that I know of is that
> > mswordview does not accept input from stdin.
> 
> /dev/fd/0 is stdin. Might be useful.

Unfortunately, it isn't. mswordview only operates on real files, not
on pipes.

Re: mswordview?

[Hrvoje Niksic]

Jonas Steverud <d4jonas@dtek.chalmers.se> writes:

> Colin Rafferty <craffert@ms.com> writes:
> 
> [...]
> > From: kyle_jones@wonderworks.com (Kyle Jones)
> > Subject: more on mswordview
> > Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.vm.info
> [...]
> > The only problem that I know of is that
> > mswordview does not accept input from stdin.
> 
> /dev/fd/0 is stdin. Might be useful.

It won't work if mswordview wants to seek the file, mmap() it into
memory, or somesuch.

Re: mswordview?

[Greg Stark]

All fascinating except that mswordview does too work on pipes.
There's a bug in the argument parsing that makes it not parse
the command line right, but the manual says it should work and
it does work with some combinations of arguments. 

If you pass /dev/fd/0 it works fine.

Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> writes:

> Jonas Steverud <d4jonas@dtek.chalmers.se> writes:
> 
> > Colin Rafferty <craffert@ms.com> writes:
> > 
> > [...]
> > > From: kyle_jones@wonderworks.com (Kyle Jones)
> > > Subject: more on mswordview
> > > Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.vm.info
> > [...]
> > > The only problem that I know of is that
> > > mswordview does not accept input from stdin.
> > 
> > /dev/fd/0 is stdin. Might be useful.
> 
> It won't work if mswordview wants to seek the file, mmap() it into
> memory, or somesuch.
> 

-- 
greg