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Article #7018Re: extracting ASCII text from various ancient wordprocessor formats
From: Preston Landers
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 00:00
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 00:00
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"bill" <wwb@connix.com> writes: > Yours is NOT a new problem - but one long ago solved. Thanks to everyone who replied with suggestions. For now, 'strings | fmt' it is. I'll look at the various extracting programs people suggested. One of my problems is that some of my files are in an old *Mac* WP format, and thus I'm unlikely to ever get a good extraction. And before someone brings this up, I know, I know, I should have exported them to plain text when I actually had the wordproccesor in question, but obviously WP for Mac version 3.5 will be around forever, won't it? ;-) Anyway, all the files I now write on my Debian GNU/Linux system are naturally in ASCII format. most of them are HTML but some are LaTeX or just plain ASCII text. thanks again, ---Preston
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