From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Zap Branigan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs rmail. How to convert .doc to plain text Date: 22 Nov 2002 14:06:00 -0800 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Sender: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <86r8dd2rav.fsf@nevis.office.affero.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1038002989 24495 80.91.224.249 (22 Nov 2002 22:09:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 22:09:49 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18FLzd-0006MX-00 for ; Fri, 22 Nov 2002 23:09:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 18FM17-0002jT-00; Fri, 22 Nov 2002 17:11:17 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!sn-xit-03!sn-xit-06!sn-post-01!supernews.com!news.supernews.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/21.2 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Original-Lines: 19 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:107326 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:3881 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:3881 >>>>> "Don" == Don Saklad writes: Don> How do you convert .doc to plain text in emacs rmail?... When people send me .doc attachments, I usually reply to them asking them not to send me things in such proprietary formats as I am unable to read. I understand that such a course is not always open to other people, though. This little filter works acceptably for text documents but not so well if there are graphics in the .doc: http://sal.kachinatech.com/G/2/WORD2X.html -- Consider yon black dog, ranging thru stubble and shoot, Meseems he coileth magic meshes To be a sometime fetter 'round out feet. The circle narrows. He draws near! _Faust_