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From: jdege@winternet.com (Jeff Dege)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: reading WORD ``attachments'' (aaaarrggh!)
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Date: 4 May 1996 23:49:14 GMT
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On 04 May 1996 08:23:11 GMT, Phillip Musumeci (phillip@mirriwinni.cse.rmit.edu.au) wrote:
:
: Here is a very low-tech filter (not a conversion tool really) to remove
: some of the weird stuff from the file before piping it into less/more.
: phillip
:
: #include <stdio.h>
: [deleted]
I've found that this works well enough at getting the text out of
a Word .DOC file:
cat file.doc | strings | fmt | more
And it doesn't take as long to write.
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