Re: Help to view .doc files with no-word.el & antiword please

[Joost Kremers]

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.


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