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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!serv.hinet.net!news.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!winternet.com!not-for-mail 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!) Followup-To: 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 Date: 4 May 1996 23:49:14 GMT Organization: StarNet Communications, Inc Lines: 20 Message-ID: <4mgqdq$h6t@blackice.winternet.com> References: <4ki055$60l@Radon.Stanford.EDU> <4mb38b$680@solaria.cc.gatech.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: subzero.winternet.com X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950726BETA PL0] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.system:23058 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:930 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:3663 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:3504 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:18747 comp.os.linux.advocacy:48068 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. -- Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You, too? Thought I was the only one." -C.S. Lewis