Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 21:31:34 -0400 From: mpd <mpd6334@cs.rit.edu> To: Maildrop <maildrop@qwest.net> Cc: Gregory Pavelcak <gp@wilde.oit.umass.edu>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sorry Windows Question but Important Message-ID: <20020411213134.A89396@rochester.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <NGBBIILBAKIFGHHCHOHPKENCCJAA.maildrop@qwest.net>; from maildrop@qwest.net on Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 08:26:48PM -0500 References: <20020411204810.A89007@rochester.rr.com> <NGBBIILBAKIFGHHCHOHPKENCCJAA.maildrop@qwest.net>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
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. <snip> > > regards, > Jack > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of mpd > > Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2002 7:48 PM > > To: Gregory Pavelcak > > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > Subject: Re: Sorry Windows Question but Important > > > > > > On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 08:36:51PM -0400, Gregory Pavelcak wrote: > > > > > > Hello all, > > > > > > A friend of mine has been working hard on a paper. She put it on a > > > floppy and now can't open it. Here are some symptoms: > > > > > > Any advice would be greatly appreciated. The poor woman is frantic. It's > > > time to reach out in a spirit of good will to a poor Windows user and > > > forgive me for the off-topic post. > > > > If you just need the content, there's a program called catdoc > > in the ports collection that will do just that: cat a .doc file > > to stdout. /usr/ports/textproc/catdoc. > > > > > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > Greg > > > > > > > mike > > -- > > ___________________________________________________________ > > > > "OF COURSE NOT, OLD BEAN! NOW, WHO WANTS TO HELP > > COUNT AND SORT MY NEW MONEY??" > > - Mr. Nutty from "MR NUTTY AND THE NEW MONEY" ugh. top-posting. mike -- ___________________________________________________________ "WHEN YOU ARE WORKING ON A PROJECT YOU SHOULD LOOK IN YOUR GARBAGE!!" - Pokey the Penguin from "DO YOU HAVE GOOD GARBAGE?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20020411213134.A89396>