AbiWord in Mailcap works well :)
Just to pass this on -- I find that abiword-0.99.5-1 works wonderfully well in ~/.mailcap to open msword documents. The entry, trivially simple, is: application/msword; /usr/bin/AbiWord %s John
Re: AbiWord in Mailcap works well :)
* John P Verel [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-06-18 16:45]: Just to pass this on -- I find that abiword-0.99.5-1 works wonderfully well in ~/.mailcap to open msword documents. The entry, trivially simple, is: application/msword; /usr/bin/AbiWord %s application/msword; antiword %s ; copiousoutput Sven [mailcap wars! :-)] -- antiword http://www.winfield.demon.nl catdoc http://www.ice.ru/~vitus/catdoc/ lesspipe.sh http://www.ifh.de/~friebel/unix/tools.html wordview http://www.wvWare.com
Re: AbiWord in Mailcap works well :)
AbiWord is a fine program, though it might be considered overkill for everday viewing of Word attachments. I use antiword and only fire up AbiWord if I really want to see or print out the original document in all its formatted glory. Also, you might want to upgrade; AbiWord 1.0.2 is out, and I find it successfully opens many Word documents that 0.99.x could not. On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 12:47:24PM -0400, John P Verel wrote: Just to pass this on -- I find that abiword-0.99.5-1 works wonderfully well in ~/.mailcap to open msword documents. The entry, trivially simple, is: application/msword; /usr/bin/AbiWord %s John -- Mark REED| CNN Internet Technology 1 CNN Center Rm SW0831G | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Atlanta, GA 30348 USA | +1 404 827 4754 -- If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, ... it expects what never was and never will be. -- Thomas Jefferson
Re: AbiWord in Mailcap works well :)
On 06/18/02, 07:28:41PM +0200, Sven Guckes wrote: application/msword; antiword %s ; copiousoutput Works pretty swift :). Have you figured out a way to print from antiword? I've tried lpr, enscript, a2ps, etc. Nothing works so far. Suggestions? John
Re: AbiWord in Mailcap works well :)
On 06/18/02, 02:10:06PM -0400, Mark J. Reed wrote: Also, you might want to upgrade; AbiWord 1.0.2 is out, and I find it successfully opens many Word documents that 0.99.x could not. Just gave 1.0.2 a go, via the rpms from the AbiWord home page. RPM reported that they were older than 0.99 (???), so I erased 0.99 and installed the base package, clipart and fonts. Got big time segfault, complaints about fonts, etc. So, erased and went back to 0.99. John
