Question about antiword

[Igor Gueths]

Hi. In my case I just use catdoc to convert to ascii text and use magicfilter to convert it into the deskjet format. 
----- Original Message ----- 
From: 'Georgina' <gena at gena-j.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 7:09 AM
Subject: Re: Question about antiword 


> 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 <bdale at gag.com>
> 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
> 
> 
> 
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> 
> >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 < <dave.hunt2 at verizon.net>
> >To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> >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
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