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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Help to view .doc files with no-word.el & antiword please
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 21:44:44 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <834orvens3.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <slrnh9744h.g0f.joostkremers@j.kremers4.news.arnhem.chello.nl>

> From: Joost Kremers <joostkremers@yahoo.com>
> Date: 25 Aug 2009 07:20:53 GMT
> 
> 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.

Antiword does support it on Windows, but it sounds like the binary the
OP has fails to read stdin in binary mode in this case.  An error
message one would normally see with this bug would be "- is not a Word
document".




  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-08-25 18:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.5189.1251023783.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-08-23 10:50 ` Help to view .doc files with no-word.el & antiword please Joost Kremers
     [not found]   ` <slrnh94hka.kph.joostkremers@j.kremers4.news.arnhem.chello.nl>
     [not found]     ` <slrnh94n0a.kph.joostkremers@j.kremers4.news.arnhem.chello.nl>
     [not found]       ` <mailman.5240.1251110919.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-08-25  7:20         ` Joost Kremers
2009-08-25 11:51           ` rpd
     [not found]           ` <mailman.5300.1251201164.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-08-25 12:20             ` Joost Kremers
2009-08-25 16:35               ` rpd
2009-08-25 17:01                 ` rpd
     [not found]                 ` <mailman.5329.1251219674.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-08-26  6:50                   ` Joost Kremers
2009-08-25 18:44           ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
     [not found] ` <87r5v1ime4.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au>
     [not found]   ` <slrnh94o4t.kph.joostkremers@j.kremers4.news.arnhem.chello.nl>
2009-08-25  5:44     ` Tim X
2009-08-25 21:34   ` rpd
2009-08-23 10:36 rpd

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