installing antiword

installing antiword

[Charles Hallenbeck]

The first Q in the antiword FAQ file is about installing
antiword. After the "make install" step you must then create
"~/.antiword" and copy into that directory one or more of the
mapping files found under the directory "resources" in the
antiword directory. I just copied them all. Be sure the files
have the correct permissions and ownership and antiword works
like a charm.

Chuck



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Re: installing antiword

['Georgina']

Hi

Yes, I've just looked at the FAQ and there it is, right at the top.  If
I'd had such a problem, I'd look in such documents before publicly
declaring a package to be broken.

Interestingly, I'm not sure what Debian has done in respect of these
mapping files.  But it works, so I'll guess that's enough.

Gena



Blindness Advocacy and Self Help Online www.bashonline.org

>The first Q in the antiword FAQ file is about installing
>antiword. After the "make install" step you must then create
>"~/.antiword" and copy into that directory one or more of the
>mapping files found under the directory "resources" in the
>antiword directory. I just copied them all. Be sure the files
>have the correct permissions and ownership and antiword works
>like a charm.
>
>Chuck
>
>
>
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Re: installing antiword

[Igor Gueths]

Hi Chuck. I might get around to playing with Antiword again sometime in the future don't know when. Anyone here ever hear of or use catdoc? It works nicely for extracting the ascii strings out of the word file. 
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Charles Hallenbeck <hallenbeck@valstar.net>
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Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 7:35 AM
Subject: installing antiword


> The first Q in the antiword FAQ file is about installing
> antiword. After the "make install" step you must then create
> "~/.antiword" and copy into that directory one or more of the
> mapping files found under the directory "resources" in the
> antiword directory. I just copied them all. Be sure the files
> have the correct permissions and ownership and antiword works
> like a charm.
> 
> Chuck
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Visit me at http://www.valstar.net/~hallenbeck
> The Moon is Waxing Gibbous (55% of Full)
> 
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Re: installing antiword

[Toby Fisher]

On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Igor Gueths wrote:

> Hi Chuck. I might get around to playing with Antiword again sometime
> in the future don't know when. Anyone here ever hear of or use catdoc?
> It works nicely for extracting the ascii strings out of the word file.

If I want to pull the ascii strings out of anything, including word docs,
I just use a line like this from a bash prompt:

cat foobar.doc |strings |foobar.txt

What's so hard about that?

Cheers.

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