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Re: Help to view .doc files with no-word.el & antiword please
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rpd |
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Re: Help to view .doc files with no-word.el & antiword please |
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Tue, 25 Aug 2009 10:01:02 -0700 (PDT) |
Hi Joost
I do not know what the previous error message was (possibly I had the wrong
file path?!)
BUT I am now able to open Word .doc files with M-x no-word-find-file [RET]
(then enter file path & when I get the path to the file right!).
Many thanks for all your help,regards
rpd wrote:
>
> Joost
>
> Thanks once more.
> Now when I get the right direcory path I get this error message:
>
> c:/Users/Dad/Charliemissing.doc is not a Word Document.
>
> (but Charliemissing.doc IS a Word .doc(!))
>
> I don't think Emacs & antiword & no-word.el like me!
>
> Anymore ideas? Thanks & regards
>
>
> Joost Kremers wrote:
>>
>> rpd wrote:
>>>
>>> Joost
>>> Thanks for your further advice but when I try M-x no-word-find-file
>>>
>>> I get this error message:
>>> I can't open '~/Charliemissing.doc' for reading
>>>
>>> (am I in the right directory? it should be
>>> C:\Users\Dad\Charliemissing.doc)
>>>
>>> Anymore ideas?
>>
>> emacs on windows (at least vista, haven't tried other versions) thinks a
>> user's
>> home directory is "C:\Users\<username>\Application Data\some_subdir" for
>> some reason i don't understand. so the tilde character ~ expands to that,
>> not to
>> C:\Users\<username>, as one might expect.
>>
>> if you type the full path to the file, it should work. (or, IMHO the
>> better
>> option, create a HOME environment variable and set it to
>> "C:\Users\<username>".
>> google should have info on how to do that.)
>>
>>
>> --
>> Joost Kremers joostkremers@yahoo.com
>> Selbst in die Unterwelt dringt durch Spalten Licht
>> EN:SiS(9)
>>
>>
>
>
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- Re: Help to view .doc files with no-word.el & antiword please, (continued)
- Re: Help to view .doc files with no-word.el & antiword please, Joost Kremers, 2009/08/23
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- Re: Help to view .doc files with no-word.el & antiword please, Joost Kremers, 2009/08/24
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