Bug#397191: less is trying to be too smart on .doc files

2009-04-19 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 12:28:51AM +1000, Aníbal Monsalve Salazar a écrit : > On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 11:17:23PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > >Maybe `which catdoc` returns something on your system ? > > dpkg -l less | grep less > ii less 418-1 Pager program similar to more > > which which; ec

Bug#397191: less is trying to be too smart on .doc files

2009-04-17 Thread Fabrice Lorrain
Aníbal Monsalve Salazar a écrit : On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 10:01:00AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: Le Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 03:11:23PM +, Steve Kemp a écrit : This is very annoying, and I've been bitten by it several times. There are two cases: 1. You try to run "less foo.doc" when ca

Bug#397191: less is trying to be too smart on .doc files

2009-04-17 Thread Aníbal Monsalve Salazar
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 11:17:23PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: >Hi Aníbal, how is it going ? Good, thanks. :) >Maybe `which catdoc` returns something on your system ? dpkg -l less | grep less ii less 418-1 Pager program similar to more which which; echo $? /usr/bin/which 0 which catdoc; ech

Bug#397191: less is trying to be too smart on .doc files

2009-04-17 Thread Charles Plessy
Hi Aníbal, how is it going ? Le Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 12:01:54AM +1000, Aníbal Monsalve Salazar a écrit : > I couldn't reproduce this bug with less 418-1. > > catdoc > -bash: catdoc: command not found > > echo some_texte_in_a_dummy_file > /tmp/foo.doc > > less /tmp/foo.doc > some_texte_in_a_dumm

Bug#397191: less is trying to be too smart on .doc files

2009-04-17 Thread Aníbal Monsalve Salazar
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 10:01:00AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: >Le Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 03:11:23PM +, Steve Kemp a écrit : >> This is very annoying, and I've been bitten by it several times. >> >> There are two cases: >> >>1. You try to run "less foo.doc" when catdoc is installed. >>

Bug#397191: less is trying to be too smart on .doc files

2008-02-14 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 03:11:23PM +, Steve Kemp a écrit : > This is very annoying, and I've been bitten by it several times. > > There are two cases: > > 1. You try to run "less foo.doc" when catdoc is installed. > -> This works for both MS-Word documents and plain text. >

Bug#397191: less is trying to be too smart on .doc files

2008-02-14 Thread Steve Kemp
This is very annoying, and I've been bitten by it several times. There are two cases: 1. You try to run "less foo.doc" when catdoc is installed. -> This works for both MS-Word documents and plain text. 2. You try to run "less foo.doc" when catdoc is not installed.

Bug#397191: less is trying to be too smart on .doc files

2007-05-16 Thread Matt Taggart
I also ran into this bug recently, and it's not clear when it happens that it's an error, you're just put in the normal less buffer and it says "No catdoc available" which at first made me assume that was the contents of the file. Unlike the original submitter, my file actually was an MS Word file

Bug#397191: less is trying to be too smart on .doc files

2006-11-05 Thread Fabrice Lorrain
Package: less Version: 394-4 Severity: normal Hello, Trying to read {syslinux,isolinux}.doc files I got a suboptimal answer from less : $ less syslinux.doc No catdoc available syslinux.doc (END) You can reproduce the pb with the following : $ echo some_texte_in_a_dummy_file > /tmp/foo.doc $ l