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sindi keesan wrote:
>
> I did find antiword at the add-on page. I somehow 
> missed that link before.  But the readme.txt file 
> does not describe it.  Which version is this?  

It is 0.32.  I think the one at the other download site
(for Slackware 9.1) is a later version.

> I think the symlink you gave us is for console mode, 
> or will it also work in X?  

It will work in X, if your /etc/XF86Config has /dev/mouse
as the Pointer Device.

> I should learn to write an alias for the whole process - 
> do I substitute %s for the file name?  

No.  The alias simply replaces what is on the left side of
the = with what is on the right side.  For example:
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alias del='rm -i'
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will take "del oldfile" and replace the "del" with "rm -i"
yielding "rm -i oldfile".

> alias man='man2html %s > file.html|lynx' 

You can't do that with an alias, but you could certainly 
do it with a script:
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man2html $1 > /tmp/xxx.html
lynx /tmp/xxx.html
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> Can I make gunzip part of the alias 
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zcat $1 | man2html > /tmp/xxx.html
lynx /tmp/xxx.html
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Cheers,
Steven