Re: WORD FILE FORMAT (WINDOWS)

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From: Tom Wheeley
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 19:09

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In article <4hv2ho$d8t@news.interpath.net>
           softbase@mercury.interpath.net
           "Scott McMahan - Softbase Systems" writes:

> Idan Feigenbaum (yfeigenbaum@decisiondata.com) wrote:
> 
> :       I need the WORD for windows file format.
> 
> :       Even knowing to take out from the .DOC file only the TEXT
> :       would be helpfull.
> 
> Use a "strings" program.

Not really a good way to deal with word files, due to Microsoft's delightful
QuickSave `feature', where changes are simply appended to the file.  Thus
you get huge, lexically unstructured, files.  :(

.splitbung
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