From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Help to view .doc files with no-word.el & antiword please Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 21:44:44 +0300 Message-ID: <834orvens3.fsf@gnu.org> References: <25102080.post@talk.nabble.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1251225925 18500 80.91.229.12 (25 Aug 2009 18:45:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:45:25 +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 20:45:18 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 1Mg118-0005Cf-Ch for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:45:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58713 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mg117-00073A-NA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:45:13 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mg10l-000735-Fs for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:44:51 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mg10k-00072s-BB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:44:51 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=46238 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mg10k-00072p-4o for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:44:50 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout7.012.net.il ([84.95.2.19]:64542) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Mg10j-0005kP-Kf for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:44:49 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.i-mtaout7.012.net.il by i-mtaout7.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0KOY00A00424BV00@i-mtaout7.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 21:44:42 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.228.144.38]) by i-mtaout7.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0KOY0096042IZA00@i-mtaout7.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 21:44:42 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (1203?) 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:67525 Archived-At: > From: Joost Kremers > 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".