From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pc1-nthc2-6-cust54.nth.cable.ntl.com ([80.4.50.54] helo=debian.debian_fan) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17KGs2-0005Ut-00 for ; Tue, 18 Jun 2002 07:09:58 -0400 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=gena-j.net) by debian.debian_fan with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17KGs3-0000Xe-00 for ; Tue, 18 Jun 2002 12:09:59 +0100 To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: Question about antiword In-reply-to: Your message of Mon, 17 Jun 2002 18:38:14 -0400. <002701c2164f$ab05b2a0$01273e18@mycomputer> Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 12:09:59 +0100 From: 'Georgina' Message-Id: Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Hi Well I missed your post. I guess that the file is related to language and character sets, going by the name of the file. I've got antiword installed and it works very nicely. I've just looked and there are no dependencies relating to character sets. Have you installed locale? Perhaps, your using a newer version? apt-cache show antiword Package: antiword Priority: optional Section: text Installed-Size: 500 Maintainer: Bdale Garbee Architecture: i386 Version: 0.32-2 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.4-4) Filename: pool/main/a/antiword/antiword_0.32-2_i386.deb Size: 88490 MD5sum: 7c19befb191b9a5a88e77a7e87310d3e Description: Converts MS Word files to text and ps Antiword is a free MS Word reader. . It converts the binary files from MS Word 6, 7, 97 and 2000 to text and Postscript. Gena Blindness Advocacy and Self Help Online www.bashonline.org >Hi Dave. I posted about this a while ago and I got no response. I have = >extensively tested that application, and its broken. I now use a program = >called catdoc. I forget where you get it, but just do a google search on = >it. Catdoc works much like cat, and it spits out the text portion of = >your word document to standard output, which in my case is redirected to = >a txt file.=20 >----- Original Message -----=20 >From: Dave Hunt < >To: >Sent: Monday, June 17, 2002 5:29 PM >Subject: Question about antiword > > >> Hi, >>=20 >> I just installed this, and tried decoding a Word 2000 file. The >> program's looking for something called its "mapping file", named >> "8859-1.txt". Any suggestions? >>=20 >> -Dave >>=20 >>=20 >>=20 >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup@braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup