Re: setting up antiword

[Michael Below <mbelow@antithese.de>]

Alex Schroeder <alex@emacswiki.org> writes:
> Note that some broken systems have quotes around the argument,
> eventhough there should be none according to the mailcap specification
> in RFC 1524:
>
>     application/msword; /usr/bin/antiword '%s'; copiousoutput; description="Microsoft Word Text"; nametemplate=%s.doc
>
> Gnus then tries to display the document using "antiword /tmp/foo" --
> somehow this does not work, either because antiword does not see the
> temp file, or because antiword does not open a new window on its own.

Strange enough, I have the above entry in /etc/mailcap (on a Debian
3.0 system), but everything works fine -- if I want to read a word
document, I press b in the article overview, and the MIME lines are
replaced by the text contents.

Michael
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