Date: Fri, 28 Nov 1997 02:40:01 -0800 (PST) From: Sheldon Hearn <axl@iafrica.com> To: freebsd-ports Subject: Re: ports/5162: port submission: catdoc Message-ID: <199711281040.CAA06769@hub.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR ports/5162; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Sheldon Hearn <axl@iafrica.com> To: brion@queeg.com Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports/5162: port submission: catdoc Date: Fri, 28 Nov 1997 12:34:20 +0200 On Thu, 27 Nov 1997 11:18:02 PST, Brion Moss wrote: > I've created a port for catdoc, a M$ Word to ASCII translator > and viewer. The tarball is in > ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD/incoming/catdoc.tgz Two suggestions: 1) This port uses old wish4.2 ... I'd suggest you patch it to use tk80 instead. 2) The default behaviour of catdoc when operating on Word97 documents is to spew high ASCII junk chars that trash the terminal display. Perhaps you should mention in pkg/DESCR which versions it supports and patch to cut out crapchars by default. Cheers, Sheldon.
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