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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 09:35:39 -0700 (PDT) |
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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- Help to view .doc files with no-word.el & antiword please, rpd, 2009/08/23
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