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Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2001 15:06:19 -0300
From: Cesar Rabak <csrabak AT uol DOT com DOT br>
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Subject: Re: Can't make Antiword with Djgpp
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
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> > Just for the sake of increasing my grasp: how did you figure that out
> > from this (for me at least ;-) cryptic message?
> 
> Contrary to popular belief, I'm not a magician ;-).  I simply
> downloaded the package and looked into the Makefile.  Once I saw
> things like "if [ -d $(destdir) ]; then" and "chmod 755 foo", it was
> clear what the problem was.

Hah OK ;-) No wonder! I kept trying to grok the error messsage by some
time and couldn't find any clue from it.

> 
> Btw, if someone's interested in this package: it works well, even with
> exotic encodings like 8859-8, but it needs some work for DOS/Windows
> to make it a good DOS/Windows citizen.  For example, it currently
> thinks that the directory separator character can be either / or \,
> but not both; and it doesn't know about the drive-letter
> brain-damage.  It would also be nice if someone would send a
> DJGPP-compatible Makefile to the maintainer.  Finally, the
> installation procedure (when you type "make install") is botched: it
> doesn't install the files needed to recode Word's Unicode text into
> something Unix and Window programs can grok.  I copied the files
> manually, based on what the man page said in the FILES section.

Thanks for you repply and the additional info. In fact I've to thank the
NG as well as is the first time I saw something about Antiword...

Regards,

Cesar