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: 25 Aug 2009 07:20:53 GMT Message-ID: References: <25102080.post@talk.nabble.com> 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 1251186113 17391 80.91.229.12 (25 Aug 2009 07:41:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 07:41:53 +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 09:41:46 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 1Mfqf2-0006IL-TI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 09:41:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57463 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mfqf2-0007W2-D7 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 03:41:44 -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: 24 Original-X-Trace: individual.net kDUYjUjF7wIp8GTVE9CVJQ6co82f5woB01gU5PSDlqg+kRrS6D Cancel-Lock: sha1:Kp0SBlZr3Ri9WMDjwU2CcVlr5jA= Mail-Copies-To: nobody X-Editor: Emacs of course! User-Agent: slrn/0.9.9 (Linux) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:172355 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:67494 Archived-At: rpd wrote: > > Hi Joost > > Many thanks for your helpful replies. > I have no got Emacs to find antiword (& it opens in cmd/dos shell) > > However every MS Word .doc I open I get an error message: > - is not a Word Document 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. what happens if you try to open a file with M-x no-word-find-file rather than with C-x C-f? i suspect that should work better. -- Joost Kremers joostkremers@yahoo.com Selbst in die Unterwelt dringt durch Spalten Licht EN:SiS(9)