On Tue, 22 May 2001, Jeremy Zawodny wrote:
> On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 10:37:20PM +0100, Nii Larnyoh wrote:
> > I have just loaded a MICROSOFT WORD document to be stored in a mySQL
> > blob column. I will like to know if the blob column that will be
> > indexed by the FULLTEXT indexer?
>
> Given that it's not [just] text, what do you expect to happen? I'd
> expect it to either not work at all, or to work in a semi-broken way.
I agree. To make it work WORD documents can be piped through some filter
and be stored as pure ascii in text tables.
It might look like:
wvWare -x /usr/local/share/wv/wvHtml.xml %s 2>/dev/null \
| w3m -dump -T text/html
where %s means your *.doc file. You have linux, don't you?
Thomas
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