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Re: antiword



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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