Re: extracting ASCII text from various ancient wordprocessor formats

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From: Jeffrey C. Dege
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 00:00

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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.

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      IF 2 + 2 .EQ. 5 THEN 5 = 4

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