Re: Help to view .doc files with no-word.el & antiword please

[rpd <richard@dickinson350.freeserve.co.uk>]

Joost
Thanks for your further advice but when I try M-x no-word-find-file

I get this error message:
I can't open '~/Charliemissing.doc' for reading

(am I in the right directory? it should be C:\Users\Dad\Charliemissing.doc)

Anymore ideas?


Joost Kremers wrote:
> 
> rpd wrote:
>>
>> Hi Joost
>>
>> Many thanks for your helpful replies. 
>> I have no got Emacs to find antiword (& it opens in cmd/dos shell)
>>
>> However every MS Word .doc I open I get an error message:
>> - is not a Word Document
> 
> mmm... on unix, the dash usually means standard input, so what i think is
> happening is that no-word calls antiword and tries to pipe the .doc file
> to it,
> but antiword doesn't understand, it thinks it needs to process a file
> named `-'.
> it could be that the windows port of antiword doesn't support reading from
> stdin.
> 
> what happens if you try to open a file with M-x no-word-find-file rather
> than
> with C-x C-f? i suspect that should work better.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Joost Kremers                                      joostkremers@yahoo.com
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> 
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