mutt

A free MS Word reader for Linux and RISC OS. Antiword converts the files from Word 2, 6, 7, 97, 2000

From: Sven Geggus ([e-mail])
Subject: Re: Word attachments in Mutt
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mutt
Date: 2001-05-16 01:21:11 PST

Bob Zimmerman <[e-mail]> wrote:

> I receive MS Word attachments in Mutt reguarly. Is there a way to
> read these via Mutt in a Linux/Solaris environment? (e.g. Lynx or
> some type of viewer)?

The best M$-word to ASCII converter has to be antiword!

Just put the following line into .mailcap:

application/msword; antiword %s; copiousoutput

Sven

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