Re: extracting ASCII text from various ancient wordprocessor formats

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From: James Youngman
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 00:00

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Preston Landers <planders@mail.utexas.edu> writes:

> I thought there would be a GNU program to "get the text" out of a
> binary file but I can't seem to find it.  

/usr/bin/strings

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