[ITP] antiword-0.35 - New package

Jari Aalto+mail.linux letters@hotpop.com
Sat Feb 21 07:11:00 GMT 2004


* Tue 2004-02-17 Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha <AT> cs.nyu.edu> list.cygwin-apps
* Message-Id: <Pine.GSO.4.56.0402171139310.28780 <AT> slinky.cs.nyu.edu>
| On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, Jari Aalto+mail.linux wrote:
| 
| > MS-Word reader which can convert documents from Word 2, 6, 7, 97,
| > 2000, and 2002 to text and Postscript. The layout of the document is
| > kept intact if possible.
| >
| > http://freshmeat.net/projects/antiword/
| >
| > wget --non-verbose  \
| >   http://tierra.dyndns.org:81/cygwin/antiword/antiword-0.35-1-src.tar.bz2 \
| >   http://tierra.dyndns.org:81/cygwin/antiword/antiword-0.35-1.tar.bz2 \
| >   http://tierra.dyndns.org:81/cygwin/antiword/setup.hint
| >
| > Let there be choices. Choose the one that is better suited for
| > *.doc: catdoc or antiword. If the other did not do well, then try with
| > the other. Word files differ great deal.
| 
| Jari,
| 
| Whoa there, hold your horses!  Next time you plan to propose a package,
| why not take a look at <http://cygwin.com/packages/> to see if it's maybe
| already there? ;-)

Right.

I assumed Cygwin didn't have antiword, because I couldn't run it from
bash. I assumed I had installed everything from setup.exe

My mistake, I forgot to download antiword ....

Please forget/ignore this port. 

Jari

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