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Re: antiword
- To: Christoph Bugel <chris(at-nospam)uxsrvc.tti-telecom.com>
- Subject: Re: antiword
- From: Ely Levy <elylevy(at-nospam)cs.huji.ac.il>
- Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 12:39:53 +0300 (IDT)
- cc: linux-il(at-nospam)cs.huji.ac.il
- In-Reply-To: <20010416184246.B805@pingu.tti>
- Sender: linux-il-bounce(at-nospam)cs.huji.ac.il
yep ots really nice
antiword -m /usr/local/share/antiword/8859-8.txt ~/tmp/file.doc | fribidi
-charset 8859-8 | hpstext
does the work nicly
(thanks to our anonymous local hebrew guru;)
Ely Levy
System group
Hebrew University
Jerusalem Israel
On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, Christoph Bugel wrote:
| My local unix guru just showed me antiword.
| It is a really cool (and small and simple) utility to convert m$word files into
| nicely formatted ascii text. (also postscript). It works great for hebrew too.
| (I pipe the output through 'rev'. the english isreversed as well, but at least
| I can read all those hebrew attachements that I used to ignore until now, and
| also for english it is so much faster and better that starting a slow and
| annoying gui session with openoffice or koffice)
| I downloaded && installed it and it is really cool.
|
| The website is http://www.winfield.demon.nl/
| What I did was to pipe the output through |rev|more or |rev|less. for less you
| should make sure that the LESSCHARSET variable is ok. (I used latin1). Also I
| wrote a script to start an xterm with -fn heb8x13, so that I can easily invoke
| it from my mail client (mutt).
| I was impressed by this useful little utility and I hope this posting will be
| useful for somebody.
|
|
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