Re: reading msword attachments

[Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels cistron nl>]

On 2003.10.13 09:53, Russell L. Harris wrote:
> Running Balsa 2.0.15 under Debian 3.0, with most mailboxes in maildir  
> format:
> 
> How does one go about reading a msword attachment?  The HELP isn't much  
> help regarding this matter.
> 
> I have available both the abiword and antiword packages; should I  
> simply point one of them into the mailbox? or is there a more proper  
> way to approach this?

I'm running GNOME under Debian (unstable, with abiword 2.0) and abiword
is registered as the MIME handler for MS word (.doc) files.

So I just go to the attachments tab, click on the msword attachment,
and balsa responds with 2 buttons - "save" and "open with abiword".

Should work for you too - if not, just save the attachment and open
it with abiword or openoffice seperately.

Mike.
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