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Article #7021Re: extracting ASCII text from various ancient wordprocessor formats
From: Sam Holden
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 00:00
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 00:00
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On Mon, 14 Jun 1999 04:06:19 GMT, Jeffrey C. Dege <jdege@jdege.visi.com> wrote: >On 14 Jun 1999 03:54:05 GMT, Sam Holden <sholden@pgrad.cs.usyd.edu.au> wrote: >>On 14 Jun 1999 03:49:52 GMT, Jeffrey C. Dege <jdege@jdege.visi.com> wrote: >>> >>>I do a "cat <filename> | strings | fmt" >> >>And win yourself a useless use of cat award... >> >><filename strings | fmt >>strings filename | fmt > >Using cat to do absolutely nothing is one of the great Unix traditions. Only amongst the uneducated who don't pay attention in comp.unix.shell -- Sam Perl was designed to be a mess (though in the nicest of possible ways). --Larry Wall
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