-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Toby, Look for a utility called "rtf2htm" which works pretty well. Once it is in htm you can use lynx to dump it to text. Chuck On Mon, 12 Apr 2004, Toby Fisher wrote: > Hi folks. > > As many of you do, I used to use the tag line about not sending Word or > Ppt files, however I've discovered a rather unfortunate side-effect, and > was wondering if it's afflicted anyone else. > > I have to take delivery of quite a lot of docs from people who use MS > Office, and after seeing my signature, they try to be kind by sending me > an rtf document. At least with a Word doc, you can do: > > cat foo.doc |strings |less > and get pretty much all of the text together and it's readable; but what > the *#@! do you do about an rtf file which is much bigger, and has loads > of crap between all the words? > > Just wondering. > > Cheers. > > p.s. you'll notice I've removed it now, not least because I now have a > Windows lap top that was paid for. > > > - -- The Moon is Waning Gibbous (52% of Full) My home page is now at http://www.mhcable.com/~chuckh -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iQCVAwUBQHnZEDVdG8M9x9tGAQJnoAP/blE7UyL39o4Jp2aMs+BnhsZklri06yVy 860oct+iZyJSYOc/76rzBDmJq5rZL0U8YnqEB4c5VZy4T5esgmj5e8E/RVMbIMMf k3o6V1nUSwRXLVWfzERs3/OrSPeTjPCUjn5Sk8kPz+0qPSmGsQE5diPXoHC/ji8H qXYfursPIjA= =atLC -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
