You might be a VMS Bigot if.....

From: gwynp_at_artware.qc.ca <(gwynp_at_artware.qc.ca)>
Date: Wed Oct 4 17:46:48 2000

On 04-Oct-2000 Tony Duell wrote:
>>
>> When I receive a mickeysoft-word document attached to e-mail, if I
>> happen to feel like reading it instead of just deleting it, I save it
>> to a text file and then do a search for words like "the" in order to
>> find out where the text is hidden.
>
> The strings(1) command on unix boxen is useful for this. What it does is
> look for strings of printable characters in the file (the minimum length
> of the string is set by a command line option) and display them. OK, so
> it loses formatting and even newlines, etc, but it will find most of
> the text in a word processor file.
strings(1) also fails if the document is in French or any language that
uses accents.

I use mswordview to get the "content" of .doc files my clients insist on
e-mailing me.

-Philip
Received on Wed Oct 04 2000 - 17:46:48 BST