[18283] in Athena Bugs
Re: sun4 8.4.12: mswordview
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Garry Zacheiss)
Fri Sep 15 18:29:48 2000
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To: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 15 Sep 2000 13:36:08 EDT."
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Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 18:29:43 -0400
From: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU>
Thanks for reporting this; mswordview is losing here inside part
of libwmf, which is trying to convert the WMFs (Windows Meta Files, a
graphics format) inside the document you received into GIFs. Since this
isn't actually useful for the way we have MH configured ("show" is just
going to pass the resulting html to lynx, which isn't going to display
the GIFs anyway) I'm going to disable this feature of mswordview in the
mimeutils locker, probably later tonight or tomorrow.
I'll also look into seeing if grabbing the most recent version
of mswordview is a better long term solution. mswordview has gone
through a lot of changes (and is now called WV), so this will probably
require a fair bit of testing.
Garry
