diff -Nru antiword-0.33/antiword.h antiword-0.33.new/antiword.h
--- antiword-0.33/antiword.h	Thu Jun 20 09:16:22 2002
+++ antiword-0.33.new/antiword.h	Sat Mar 22 21:29:50 2003
@@ -179,6 +179,7 @@
 #else	/* All others */
 #define GLOBAL_ANTIWORD_DIR	"/usr/share/antiword"
 #define ANTIWORD_DIR		".antiword"
+#define ETC_DIR_ANTIWORD_DIR	".antiword"
 #define FONTNAMES_FILE		"fontnames"
 #endif /* __dos */
 /* The name of the default mapping file */
--- antiword-0.36/options.c.orig	2004-10-08 20:54:36.000000000 +0200
+++ antiword-0.36/options.c	2004-11-06 22:29:52.401338432 +0100
@@ -216,6 +216,24 @@
 	}
 
 	/* Try the local version of the mapping file */
+    szHome = getenv("HOME_ETC");
+    if (szHome) {
+	if (strlen(szHome) + tFilenameLen <
+	    sizeof(szMappingFile) -
+	    sizeof(ETC_DIR_ANTIWORD_DIR) -
+	    2 * sizeof(FILE_SEPARATOR)) {
+		sprintf(szMappingFile,
+			"%s" FILE_SEPARATOR ETC_DIR_ANTIWORD_DIR FILE_SEPARATOR "%s%s",
+			szHome, szLeafname, szSuffix);
+		DBG_MSG(szMappingFile);
+		pFile = fopen(szMappingFile, "r");
+		if (pFile != NULL) {
+			return pFile;
+		}
+	} else {
+		werr(0, "Local mappingfilename too long, ignored");
+	}
+    } else {
 	szHome = szGetHomeDirectory();
 	if (strlen(szHome) + tFilenameLen <
 	    sizeof(szMappingFile) -
@@ -232,6 +250,7 @@
 	} else {
 		werr(0, "Local mappingfilename too long, ignored");
 	}
+    }
 
 	/* Try the global version of the mapping file */
 	if (tFilenameLen <
@@ -249,6 +268,11 @@
 	} else {
 		werr(0, "Global mappingfilename too long, ignored");
 	}
+   if (getenv("HOME_ETC") != NULL)
+	werr(0, "I can't open your mapping file (%s%s)\n"
+		"It is not in '%s" FILE_SEPARATOR ETC_DIR_ANTIWORD_DIR "' nor in '"
+		GLOBAL_ANTIWORD_DIR "'.", szLeafname, szSuffix, szHome);
+   else
 	werr(0, "I can't open your mapping file (%s%s)\n"
 		"It is not in '%s" FILE_SEPARATOR ANTIWORD_DIR "' nor in '"
 		GLOBAL_ANTIWORD_DIR "'.", szLeafname, szSuffix, szHome);