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Date:      Thu, 8 Nov 2001 17:13:25 -0500
From:      Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org>
To:        Ulf Zimmermann <ulf@Alameda.net>
Cc:        "David O'Brien" <obrien@NUXI.com>, Bill Vermillion <bv@wjv.com>, "Julian Stacey Jhs@jhs.muc.de" <jhs@jhs.muc.de>, alexus <ml@db.nexgen.com>, dave bartels <dkbart@nwrain.com>, freebsd-jobs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Word .doc format Not wanted.
Message-ID:  <20011108171324.A5639@cons.org>
In-Reply-To: <20011108140849.F76838@seven.alameda.net>; from ulf@Alameda.net on Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 02:08:49PM -0800
References:  <ml@db.nexgen.com> <200111081136.fA8BaJ001848@jhs.muc.de> <20011108103913.A59220@wjv.com> <20011108083013.M76565@dragon.nuxi.com> <20011108140849.F76838@seven.alameda.net>

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Ulf Zimmermann wrote on Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 02:08:49PM -0800: 
> I use mutt, but from a ssh connection. Mostly it will display HTML ok
> as plain text, but often enough stuff is encoded wrong for mutt to
> recognize and change it.

~/.mailcap:

text/html; lynx -dump -nolist %s | $PAGER

> > Shoot add antiword + xv + xv + xpdf to the mix and there is little I
> > cannot read.  (I may loose .doc formatting, but at least I can read the
> > text content)
> 
> Anything which causes to call an external program to be called and 
> needs X or svga, no thank you.

Antiword is quite good (except for the size limitation :-/) and does
ascii2 text as well as postscript.

Wordfiles on this list still have a chance of zero to be read by me,
otherwise I could enter a mailcap construction similar to the one
above.

Martin
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