It seems that this mail never made it through the first time, so I am resending it.
I've written a small script that can be run through your mailcap file. It uses wvWare and lynx/netscape to view word files through your mail program (pine, mutt, netscape, anything that uses mailcap).
The script is at http://db.ilug-bom.org.in/lug-authors/philip/bin/ and a mirror on my downloads page (ncst/~philip/downloads/).
Instructions are in the file. You'll have to make it executable and copy it to /usr/local/bin/ before you can use it.
Philip
On Sat, 24 Nov 2001, Philip S Tellis wrote:
I've written a small script that can be run through your mailcap file. It uses wvWare and lynx/netscape to view word files through your mail program (pine, mutt, netscape, anything that uses mailcap).
Please add support for Excel and Powerpoint files. Use xlHtml for conversion. http://www.xlhtml.org/ In fact the package does have a script called nsxlview (plug-in for netscape) that does the needful, but I guess it would be better if you make changes to add support for lynx and then rename it to xlmime (and pptmime) and put it in your "package".
Manish
Sometime Today, Manish Jethani assembled some asciibets to say:
Please add support for Excel and Powerpoint files. Use xlHtml for
Yeah, I had mentioned this in my first mail. Don't expect xl and ppt support too soon. I'll do it when *I* need it, or when I have nothing else to do.
Philip
On Sat, 24 Nov 2001, Philip S Tellis wrote:
Sometime Today, Manish Jethani assembled some asciibets to say:
Please add support for Excel and Powerpoint files. Use xlHtml for
Yeah, I had mentioned this in my first mail. Don't expect xl and ppt support too soon. I'll do it when *I* need it, or when I have nothing
Actually, if you have xlhtml installed, just adding this to your .mailcap file will do:
application/msexcel; \ xlhtml "%s" 2>/dev/null |lynx -force_html /dev/stdin; \ needsterminal; description="MS Excel Spreadsheet"
Same for ppt files. This is what I'm using.
Manish
Sometime on Nov 24, Manish Jethani assembled some asciibets to say:
Actually, if you have xlhtml installed, just adding this to your .mailcap file will do:
application/msexcel; \ xlhtml "%s" 2>/dev/null |lynx -force_html /dev/stdin; \ needsterminal; description="MS Excel Spreadsheet"
Yup, but that will start lynx when in X as well. I'd prefer using netscape/moz when in X, hence the script. I could probably figure out how to do it without a script, but not now.
Philip
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