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    • Full Text Search Using catdoc Ported to Windows XP

    Posted by Ed posts: 19 United States

    It looks like the very handy catdoc (as well as catppt, xls2csv) have
    been modified so that they work on a Windows XP OS

    Binaries and Source Can be Downloaded Here

    These files work great - and just like on linux - when executing them at
    the Windows command line.

    Configuring Tiki to use them in a Windows environment has me stumped.
    On my Linux Tikis, for example, I have the following set up in fgal admin...

    Mime Type System Command
    application/msword catdoc %1

    I did the same for Windows, and made sure that the Path environment variable
    allowed catdoc to be called from anywhere (but maybe not by PHP or Tiki?).

    No luck getting it to work.

    If anyone knows of any slight configuration differences, please let me know.

    Thanks,

    -Ed (edmund)

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    Posted by Ed posts: 19 United States

    Well, apparently the solution is that the path must be defined a little more verbosely than in a linux environment...

    Mime Type System Command
    application\msword C:\\catdoc\\catdoc %1

    The System command above presumes that the executable
    catdoc.exe file is installed in the C:\catdoc\ directory.

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    Posted by superdave posts: 22
    Perhaps if you placed the \catdoc directory in the c:\program files directory, you wouldn't have to use the "verbose" method?
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    Posted by Jean-Marc Libs posts: 40 France

    I confirm Ed's findings.
    I only got the "verbose" method to work.
    An additional issue was, the indexes were truncated to the forst non-ascii character. In french, this means, the first accented character. I ended up using this:
    "C:\\Program Files\\catdoc\\catdoc" -a -s cp1252 -d utf-8 %1

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