From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bruce Ingalls Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to convert .doc to txt Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 15:10:24 GMT Organization: Road Runner - NYC Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1068565627 20772 80.91.224.253 (11 Nov 2003 15:47:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 15:47:07 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 11 16:47:02 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AJajN-000166-00 for ; Tue, 11 Nov 2003 16:47:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AJbCG-0001jG-Ii for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Nov 2003 11:16:52 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!wn13feed!wn12feed!wn14feed!worldnet.att.net!199.45.49.37!cyclone1.gnilink.net!peer01.cox.net!peer02.cox.net!cox.net!news3.optonline.net!cyclone.rdc-nyc.rr.com!news-out.nyc.rr.com!twister.nyc.rr.com.POSTED!not-for-mail User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031013 Thunderbird/0.3 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 15 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.168.132.191 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@rr.com Original-X-Trace: twister.nyc.rr.com 1068563424 24.168.132.191 (Tue, 11 Nov 2003 10:10:24 EST) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 10:10:24 EST Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:118119 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:14059 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:14059 Alex Ott wrote: >>>>>>"DS" == Don Saklad writes: > > DS> In rmail in emacs, how do you convert .doc to txt ?... > > You can use catdoc programm as converter .doc, .xls, .rtf to txt In the contrib section of the http://EMacro.sf.net project, there is elisp code to call catdoc. There was such little interest in importing Word documents, that I pulled out the code. Frankly, you'll get better results by launching Abiword or Open Office, then exporting, unless you run console mode, only, on your incompatible box.