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Re: how to view MS files within mutt?



On 12:07 Tue 20 Dec 2005, faxmodem@xxxxxxx wrote:
> 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

Thank you. I put these two lines in my .mailcap but I still got the message
" [-- application/octet-stream is unsupported (use 'v' to view this part)
--]"

I have installed antiword and xlhtml. Do I need to add anything into .muttrc
as well? 



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