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Re: how to view MS files within mutt?



On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 11:09:48AM +0800, phyrster wrote:
> I got a lot of MS files (Word and Excel) as attachments  in my messages. I
> have installed Openoffice 2.0 but everytime I have to manually save the
> attachment and then open them after using Oo. 

if you just want to see the text, I highly recommend using antiword for .doc
and xlhtml for .xls. Here's my ~/.mailcap entries:

8><----------------------------------------------------------------------
application/msword;antiword %s | less
application/vnd.ms-excel;xlhtml %s | html2text | less
----------------------------------------------------------------------><8