From: Sven Geggus (sven@geggus.net)
Subject: Re: Word attachments in Mutt
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mutt
Date: 2001-05-16 01:21:11 PST

Bob Zimmerman <bobzim@no.spam.org> wrote:

> I receive MS Word attachments in Mutt reguarly. Is there a way to
> read these via Mutt in a Linux/Solaris environment? (e.g. Lynx or
> some type of viewer)?

The best M$-word to ASCII converter has to be antiword!

Just put the following line into .mailcap:

application/msword; antiword %s; copiousoutput

Sven

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