[imp] Cannot view msword attachments, and workaround

Michael M Slusarz slusarz at bigworm.colorado.edu
Thu Apr 1 11:41:20 PST 2004


Quoting Lars Hecking <lhecking at nmrc.ie>:

>> It is in framework (the MIME package) in HEAD:
>> http://cvs.horde.org/cvs.php/framework/MIME/MIME/Viewer/msword.php
>>
>> This will not be backported to 2.x until others can confirm that 
>> this patch does indeed fix the problem.
>
>  It doesn't work for me, but then, I'm using wvWare differently.
>
>  Your original $mime_drivers['horde']['msword']['location'] uses wvHtml,
>  which indeed produces only a numerical version string:
>
> # /usr/local/bin/wvHtml --version
> 1.0.0
>
>  But I am using the setup described here
>     http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=imp&m=102450911929993&w=2
>
>  i.e. I use wvWare directly instead of wvHtml, and it prints it's own name
>  in addition to the numerical version
>
> # /usr/local/bin/wvWare --version
> wvWare 1.0.0
>
>  That's the real problem.
>
>  Oh well, the inconsistency is really in wvWare, but I'm sure it would
>  not be difficult to let horde catch it.

Except that the config file asks for the location of the wvHtml binary, 
and not
the wvWare binary (I will make this even clearer).

The msword viewer doesn't support the wvWare program - only the wvHtml 
program.

michael

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Michael Slusarz [slusarz at bigworm.colorado.edu]
The University of Colorado at Boulder


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