From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: rpd Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Help to view .doc files with no-word.el & antiword please Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 04:51:51 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <25132797.post@talk.nabble.com> References: <25102080.post@talk.nabble.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1251202136 32112 80.91.229.12 (25 Aug 2009 12:08:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 12:08:56 +0000 (UTC) To: Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 25 14:08:49 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MfupT-00007N-Uj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:08:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52840 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MfupT-00044U-8R for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 08:08:47 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MfuZr-0001hJ-IV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 07:52:40 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MfuZk-0001fw-OY for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 07:52:37 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=33029 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MfuZj-0001fj-8d for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 07:52:31 -0400 Original-Received: from kuber.nabble.com ([216.139.236.158]:47391) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MfuZi-0001eq-OX for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 07:52:30 -0400 Original-Received: from isper.nabble.com ([192.168.236.156]) by kuber.nabble.com with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1MfuZH-0002BJ-Mf for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 04:52:03 -0700 In-Reply-To: X-Nabble-From: richard@dickinson350.freeserve.co.uk X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:67497 Archived-At: 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 > Selbst in die Unterwelt dringt durch Spalten Licht > EN:SiS(9) > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Help-to-view-.doc-files-with-no-word.el---antiword-please-tp25102080p25132797.html Sent from the Emacs - Help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.