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 09:35:39 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <25137851.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 1251218678 26065 80.91.229.12 (25 Aug 2009 16:44:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:44:38 +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 18:44:31 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 1Mfz8I-0005bs-Kr for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:44:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52232 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mfz8I-00055o-5d for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 12:44:30 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mfyzq-00054j-N2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 12:35:46 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mfyzm-00052n-3U for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 12:35:46 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=39896 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mfyzm-00052g-0J for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 12:35:42 -0400 Original-Received: from kuber.nabble.com ([216.139.236.158]:46688) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Mfyzl-0007Eo-43 for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 12:35:41 -0400 Original-Received: from isper.nabble.com ([192.168.236.156]) by kuber.nabble.com with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Mfyzj-0004jY-0T for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 09:35:39 -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:67518 Archived-At: Joost Thanks once more. Now when I get the right direcory path I get this error message: c:/Users/Dad/Charliemissing.doc is not a Word Document. (but Charliemissing.doc IS a Word .doc(!)) I don't think Emacs & antiword & no-word.el like me! Anymore ideas? Thanks & regards Joost Kremers wrote: > > rpd wrote: >> >> 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? > > emacs on windows (at least vista, haven't tried other versions) thinks a > user's > home directory is "C:\Users\\Application Data\some_subdir" for > some reason i don't understand. so the tilde character ~ expands to that, > not to > C:\Users\, as one might expect. > > if you type the full path to the file, it should work. (or, IMHO the > better > option, create a HOME environment variable and set it to > "C:\Users\". > google should have info on how to do that.) > > > -- > 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-tp25102080p25137851.html Sent from the Emacs - Help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.