Re: Help to view .doc files with no-word.el & antiword please

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Joost Kremers <joostkremers@yahoo.com>
> Date: 25 Aug 2009 07:20:53 GMT
> 
> mmm... on unix, the dash usually means standard input, so what i think is
> happening is that no-word calls antiword and tries to pipe the .doc file to 
> it,
> but antiword doesn't understand, it thinks it needs to process a file named 
> `-'.
> it could be that the windows port of antiword doesn't support reading from
> stdin.

Antiword does support it on Windows, but it sounds like the binary the
OP has fails to read stdin in binary mode in this case.  An error
message one would normally see with this bug would be "- is not a Word
document".