From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Joost Kremers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Help to view .doc files with no-word.el & antiword please Date: 23 Aug 2009 10:50:05 GMT Message-ID: References: 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 1251027668 20116 80.91.229.12 (23 Aug 2009 11:41:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2009 11:41:08 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 23 13:41:02 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 1MfBRR-0003bQ-N7 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 23 Aug 2009 13:40:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37486 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MfBRR-0006tj-4R for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 23 Aug 2009 07:40:57 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 25 Original-X-Trace: individual.net iXpP/Oeg2klxg967rPV3vw48d0AO22fVJKOjhNfQnaM9WI0759 Cancel-Lock: sha1:lgicLmdD0yMZPIfE53gzz9R5deA= Mail-Copies-To: nobody X-Editor: Emacs of course! User-Agent: slrn/0.9.9 (Linux) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:172293 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:67443 Archived-At: rpd wrote: > As can be seen I have several repeat lines of code here (several commented > out) but no matter what combination I use I cannot get to view .doc files > (usually getting the error msg I give below). > When I try loading no-word.el it still doesn't work- I get a command in > minibuffer about coding(default) which, from the looks of it, is exactly what is expected: no-word is by default configured to ask you for an encoding. > & if I [ret] then I get this error msg: > > 'antiword' is not recognized as an internal or external command, > operable program or batch file. this is not an emacs error but an error from the DOS command shell. it means that the antiword executable cannot be found. since no-word doesn't allow you to customize this location (which is a bug, if you ask me) you'll either have to modify the code or (easier) put the antiword executable in your $PATH. -- Joost Kremers joostkremers@yahoo.com Selbst in die Unterwelt dringt durch Spalten Licht EN:SiS(9)