On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 07:23:52PM -0400, Derek Martin
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> text? Why should I, the recipient, be forced to launch some lame, bloated
> application (microsoft or otherwise) just to read a five-line e-mail?
>
> In practice, the answer is, I don't. The e-mail goes unread. As did this
> one.
While I agree in principle, in this case you don't have to launch a
lame, bloated application. Use OSS! In my case, mutt reads the email,
invokes wvHtml on the attachment, w3m dumps the resulting HTML file to
text, and mutt appends that to the message, which is then pageable as a
whole within mutt. So it looks just like a text attachment. I almost
didn't even noticed it was a Word attachment.
P.S. If you're wondering, I've been contributing a little to mutt,
hence my enthusiasm and advocacy. :-)
--
Bob Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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