On 04-May-98 Tony Nugent wrote:
> I'm wondering if such a beast exists...
>
> I often get mail attachments from people here at the uni where I work
> that
> are m$-word documents.
>
> I'm using mh (and exmh once I bash it into shape a little more) to read
> my
> mail, and I have it set up to handle all sorts of mail attachments.
>
> But I have nothing that will allow me to view these word .doc files.
>
I had the same problem. There is a utility called w2txt or something,
which is supposed to get the text out of MS-Word documents, but it's less
than perfect.
A better solution is to set up wine and get Wordview, a freeware
program from Microsoft. Then set up the MIME list for
"application/MS-Word" as "wine wordview %s" and you're set. (Actually I
think I had to set up a small script file - maybe cd to the wordview
directory)
Hope this helps!
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