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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: ms word documents
From:       David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2002-11-03 10:49:04
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On Sunday 03 November 2002 06:53, Will Watson wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> For the life of me, I can't seem to open a MS word document in KWord. KSpread 
> works good. Every time I attempt to open a document, a dialog tells me that 
> the format is not suppoerted. These documents were created with Word97 w/o 
> the quick-save mess turned on. I am using the default install of Mandrake 
> 9.0. This file type, by default, was set to Netscape plugger. I have changed 
> all of this to reflect that KWord is the default app. I have also noticed 
> that, from within KWord, if I try to open (file>open) to one of these 
> documents, it doesn't show up in the list of files in the open dialog box, 
> even if I change the file-type-to-open selection at the bottom of the dialog 
> to 'MSWord Documents'. Thanks for any help you can give me on this. This, as 
> with a lot of people from waht I gather, is the last hurdle I must get across 
> to completely reomove myself from the 'wonderful' world of Windows.

Ok, since this installation problem seems to happen to many people...
I just wrote a new script that checks the installation.
Please run the attached script and mail back the results.

- -- 
David FAURE, david@mandrakesoft.com, faure@kde.org
http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~david/
Contributing to: http://www.konqueror.org/, http://www.koffice.org/
Get the latest KOffice - http://download.kde.org/stable/koffice-1.2/
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["check_msword_import.sh" (application/x-shellscript)]

#!/bin/bash
if ! kde-config ; then
  echo 'kde-config not found ! Aborting. You need a more recent KDE, or to fix your $PATH.'
  exit 1
fi

mimelnks=`kde-config --path mime`
lastmimepath=""
found=0
# Relevant existing mimetypes
mimes=""

IFS=:
for dir in $mimelnks; do
  lastmimepath=$dir
  filename="application/msword.desktop"
  if [ -f "$dir$filename" ]; then
      echo -n "Found: $dir$filename... "
      hidden=`grep ^Hidden $dir$filename`
      if [ "$hidden" == "true" ]; then
          echo "deleted";
      else
          mimetype=`grep ^MimeType $dir$filename|sed -e 's/.*=//'`
          mimes="$mimes:$mimetype"; # using ':' because of IFS
          patterns=`grep ^Patterns $dir$filename|sed -e 's/.*=//'`
          if [ -n "$patterns" ]; then
              echo -n "(associated with $patterns)"
          fi
          echo
      fi
  fi
  filename="application/msword2.desktop"
  if [ -f "$dir$filename" ]; then
      echo -n "Found: $dir$filename... "
      hidden=`grep ^Hidden $dir$filename`
      if [ "$hidden" == "true" ]; then
          echo "deleted";
      else
          mimetype=`grep ^MimeType $dir$filename|sed -e 's/.*=//'`
          mimes="$mimes:$mimetype"; # using ':' because of IFS
          patterns=`grep ^Patterns $dir$filename|sed -e 's/.*=//'`
          if [ -n "$patterns" ]; then
              echo -n "(associated with $patterns)"
          fi
          echo
      fi
  fi
done

IFS=" "
mimes=`echo $mimes | sed -e 's/^://g'`
echo "Relevant mimetypes found: $mimes"

magic=$lastmimepath/magic
if [ -f "$magic" ]; then
    echo "magic file says: "
    grep 'Microsoft\\ Word' $magic
else
    echo "ERROR: Magic file not found $magic"
fi

IFS=:
for dir in `kde-config --path services`; do
  echo Services dir $dir
  for mime in $mimes; do
     grep "Import=.*$mime" $dir/*.desktop
  done
done

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