From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Horn Subject: Re: [OT] Importing plain text attachments into Org Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 05:15:54 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87pqrnf8v9.fsf@berkeley.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=47594 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PhJdg-0004pa-NQ for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Jan 2011 05:27:17 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PhJTD-0001fA-Vk for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Jan 2011 05:16:25 -0500 Received: from mail-fx0-f41.google.com ([209.85.161.41]:52990) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PhJTD-0001f2-OT for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Jan 2011 05:16:23 -0500 Received: by fxm12 with SMTP id 12so4049866fxm.0 for ; Mon, 24 Jan 2011 02:16:23 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <87pqrnf8v9.fsf@berkeley.edu> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Richard Lawrence Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org > Students will email me their papers every week. =A0I have no desire to > download, print, and read a bunch of .doc files by hand every week. I don't have direct answers to your other questions, but have a look at catdoc and antiword (I prefer the latter) for reading docs on the command line. I spotted an interesting article on how to use emacs to open doc files using antiword, but haven't tried it yet. http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/AntiWord --=20 Jeffrey Horn http://www.failuretorefrain.com/jeff/