Re: How make StarOffice read MS-Word attachments automagically?
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 07:46:03PM -0700 or thereabouts, Dr. Christian Seberino wrote: I successfully got html attachments read automagically and thought I would be more ambitious and get StarOffice to read M$-Word attachments too... What is the analog of auto_view text/html in .muttrc and text/html; lynx -dump %s ; copiousoutput in .mailcap? (I tried auto_view text/doc but no go (doc is binary :( ) I still love mutt, Excerpt from my .mailcap application/msword; /home/cdaly/bin/office52/soffice %s ; edit=/home/cdaly/bin/office52/soffice %s; compose=/home/cdaly/bin/office52/soffice %s; description=Microsoft Word document Thassit... -- Conor Daly Met Eireann, Glasnevin Hill, Dublin 9, Ireland Ph +353 1 8064217 Fax +353 1 8064275 1:20pm up 19:13, 10 users, load average: 0.01, 0.04, 0.13
Re: How make StarOffice read MS-Word attachments automagically?
Quoting Mark Sheppard [EMAIL PROTECTED], who wrote: On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 07:49:40AM +0100, Viktor Lakics wrote: Using staroffice is a horror idea - at least to me...:-)). What do you want to see in those emails? Mutt is an email client, very fast, staroffice is *BIGGG* and *SLW*. I can imagine myself waiting 30-40 sec for some stupid email to come up...How can you survive? [...] MSWORD: the way is to convert it to text: for this you need wordview package (find it on the nearest linux mirror) [...] An alternative to wordview is catdoc available from http://www.fe.msk.ru/~vitus/catdoc/ (and it may well be part of Also, there is antiword, yet another ms-word to text converter. Anybody know about a ms-powerpoint and/or ms-excel to text converter? -- Sam Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How make StarOffice read MS-Word attachments automagically?
HI Christian, Using staroffice is a horror idea - at least to me...:-)). What do you want to see in those emails? Mutt is an email client, very fast, staroffice is *BIGGG* and *SLW*. I can imagine myself waiting 30-40 sec for some stupid email to come up...How can you survive? Anyway, after the rant, some answers: HTML mail: if you really want a graphical browser why do not use konqeror in KDE or opera - these are small, fast and still very capable browsers... MSWORD: the way is to convert it to text: for this you need wordview package (find it on the nearest linux mirror) .muttrc: autoview application/msword autoview application/rtf .mailcap: application/msword; ~/wordview.sh %s; copiousoutput The wordview.sh file is abit tricky: first one need to convert doc to html, then get lynx or links to dump it to text and finally feed it back to mutt... What I did is a terrible hack I know, there is a more clever way using pipes, but it just did not want to work for me. So here is the script: #!/bin/bash wvHtml --charset utf-8 $1 ~/tmp/wordtempfile.html links -dump ~/tmp/wordtempfile.html rm -f ~/tmp/wordtempfile.html Copy it to a text file, name it wordview.sh then chmod a+x wordview.sh (this makes it executable) put it somewhere in you path wvHtml is the binary html converter in the wordview package. links has to be at least v0.92, you can use lynx if you fancy that. Do not forget to put the following in your .mime.types file: application/msword doc dot application/rtf rtf Hope this helps... -- Viktor On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 07:46:03PM -0700, Dr. Christian Seberino wrote: I successfully got html attachments read automagically and thought I would be more ambitious and get StarOffice to read M$-Word attachments too... What is the analog of auto_view text/html in .muttrc and text/html; lynx -dump %s ; copiousoutput in .mailcap? (I tried auto_view text/doc but no go (doc is binary :( ) I still love mutt, Chris -- === Dr. Christian Seberino === SPAWARSYSCEN D02P || (619) 553-2564 49330 ELECTRON DR || SAN DIEGO CA 92152-5451|| [EMAIL PROTECTED] ===
Re: How make StarOffice read MS-Word attachments automagically?
On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 07:49:40AM +0100, Viktor Lakics wrote:
Using staroffice is a horror idea - at least to me...:-)). What do
you want to see in those emails? Mutt is an email client, very fast,
staroffice is *BIGGG* and *SLW*. I can imagine myself waiting
30-40 sec for some stupid email to come up...How can you survive?
[...]
MSWORD: the way is to convert it to text: for this you need
wordview package (find it on the nearest linux mirror)
[...]
An alternative to wordview is catdoc available from
http://www.fe.msk.ru/~vitus/catdoc/ (and it may well be part of
whatever Linux distribution you're using). Just install it and shove
the following line in your .mailcap:
application/msword; catdoc %s; copiousoutput
and this in your .muttrc:
auto_view application/msword
I've noticed that a lot of broken Windows mailers set the MIME type on
Word documents to application/octet-stream. As this is a kind of
catch-all or last resort MIME type it doesn't really tell you much
about what the content actually is. So if you want to handle this
gracefully you could use the following in your .mailcap:
application/octet-stream; any2ascii %s; copiousoutput
and this in your .muttrc:
auto_view application/octet-stream
where any2ascii is the script below. This can easily be extended for
other data you receive with a MIME type of application/octet-stream.
The script depends on the file unix command being able to recognise
the format of the actual data.
Mark.
#!/bin/sh
# Guess the MIME type.
if [ $# != 1 ]; then
echo USAGE: $0 file
exit 1
fi
type=`file -b ${1+$@}`
if [ $type = Microsoft Word document data ]; then
echo [-- any2ascii: using catdoc to convert '$type' --]
echo
catdoc ${1+$@}
echo
echo [-- any2ascii: EOF --]
else
echo [-- any2ascii: unsupported file type '$type' --]
fi
How make StarOffice read MS-Word attachments automagically?
I successfully got html attachments read automagically and thought I would be more ambitious and get StarOffice to read M$-Word attachments too... What is the analog of auto_view text/html in .muttrc and text/html; lynx -dump %s ; copiousoutput in .mailcap? (I tried auto_view text/doc but no go (doc is binary :( ) I still love mutt, Chris -- === Dr. Christian Seberino === SPAWARSYSCEN D02P || (619) 553-2564 49330 ELECTRON DR || SAN DIEGO CA 92152-5451|| [EMAIL PROTECTED] ===
