[Perlfect-search] Re: Indexing Microsoft Documents

[Cameron Moore]

* yuriy@mint-tech.com [2001.10.26 10:50]:
>    I'm using UNIX, Sun Solaris.  I don't know how to do it under Windows,
>    but I suggest you start looking for "to text" converters.  Good luck.
>    
>    Yuriy
>    
>    -----Original Message-----
>    From: perlfect-search-admin@perlfect.com
>    [mailto:perlfect-search-admin@perlfect.com]On Behalf Of Davone Vang
>    Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 11:28 AM
>    To: yuriy@mint-tech.com; perlfect-search@perlfect.com
>    Subject: [Perlfect-search] Re: Indexing Microsoft Documents
>    
>      Yuriy,
>      It's been awhile since I got back to my question about indexing
>      Microsoft documents and searching them using Perlfect.  I remember
>      you responding to my question that it worked for you by installing
>      "catdoc" and "xls2csv" then adding some code to the config.pl,
>      indexer_filesystem.pl, and indexer_web.pl files.  One more question
>      I have for you is did you do this on a Windows system or a UNIX
>      system?  Because I'm using a Windows system.  I hope you still
>      remember what I'm talking about.  If you don't, our emails are in
>      the October Perlfect mailing archive.  Hope to hear from you.
>      Thanks for you help.
>      
>      Davone

Davone,
Forget catdoc.  Get antiword.  It runs on many different platforms.  Use
the same patches that Yurly listed before, and it will work fine.
Antiword is at http://www.winfield.demon.nl/index.html.  Enjoy
-- 
Cameron Moore
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