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 -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org> http://www.cons.org/cracauer/ As far as I'm concerned, if something is so complicated that you can't ex- plain it in 10 seconds, then it's probably not worth knowing anyway -Calvin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-jobs" in the body of the message
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