On Friday 09 May 2008 12:02:17 pm Dave Stevens wrote: > Hi, > > I have a MS Word file from several years ago that I want to look at. I can > not open it with OpenOffice Writer, Abiword, gedit. All give a message that > indicates there is something wrong with the file format - character > encoding, damaged file etc. But when I use less to view the contents I get > an initial warning that the file may be binary (fair enough, it is) then it > shows me the content I more or less expected, though horribly unformatted > and hard to read. > > It is all text that I want, no figures or graphics. As far as I know I > could cut and paste from less, or use a hex editor, but that is horribly > tedious for 35 pages or so of text. Anyone have a suggestion? > > dave > ps - F7 up to date > strings worked nicely. didn't get everything but enough to make the rest manageable. thanks, D -- In modern fantasy (literary or governmental), killing people is the usual solution to the so-called war between good and evil. My books are not conceived in terms of such a war, and offer no simple answers to simplistic questions. -- Ursula K. LeGuin -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
