From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 12 5:47:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from oitunix.oit.umass.edu (som-456.dhcp.umass.edu [128.119.137.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C62137B405 for ; Fri, 12 Apr 2002 05:47:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from gp@localhost) by oitunix.oit.umass.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g3CCl2J59438; Fri, 12 Apr 2002 08:47:02 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gp) Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 08:47:02 -0400 From: Greg Pavelcak To: mpd Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sorry Windows Question but Important Message-ID: <20020412124702.GA59423@oitunix.oit.umass.edu> Mail-Followup-To: Greg Pavelcak , mpd , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20020411204810.A89007@rochester.rr.com> <20020411213134.A89396@rochester.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020411213134.A89396@rochester.rr.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 09:31:34PM -0400, mpd wrote: > On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 08:26:48PM -0500, Maildrop wrote: > > > > > > Won't just cat work fine? > > > > cat /floppy/broken_file.doc > /tmp/fixed_file.doc > > > > Have you ever tried this? > > The content is there, but it's surrounded by garbage. > catdoc removes all the formatting that clutters up > word documents. > > If you don't want to install ports, 'strings' would > probably do what you want. > > > Thanks to everyone for the input. Just for the record, neither catdoc nor cat worked. Someone else ran a Windows disk utility (Scandisk?). That repaired the problem, and she was able to open the file again. Thanks again for all the replies. Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message