setting up antiword

setting up antiword

[John Littler]

Hi,
I'm trying to set up antiword to read msword doc attachments.
The code I found relates to gnus pre-MIME handling days.
Can someone point me to a reference? Most of the stuff I've
found through google is obsolete.
Cheers
John
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Re: setting up antiword

[Alex Schroeder]

Jesper Harder <harder@myrealbox.com> writes:

> The suggestion in the wiki seems to be workaround for a problem the
> author had with his mailcap file, or maybe the version of antiword.
> Just a mailcap entry works fine for me.
>
> The problem could have been that the quotes around the argument, '%s',
> are bogus.  You are not supposed to use quotes according to RFC 1524
> (the mailcap specification).

Hm, in my /etc/mailcap I have exactly that problem, then.  :)

application/msword; /usr/bin/antiword '%s'; copiousoutput; description="Microsoft Word Text"; nametemplate=%s.doc

I will write something on the wiki, if nobody does it first.  Thanks
for the explanation.

Alex.

Re: setting up antiword

[Michael Below]

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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