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Subject: Re: any shortcuts to doc to ascii?
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On Thursday 27 May 2010 05:18:07 pm Bob Hall wrote:
> On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 04:36:08PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
> > 	ps: antiword same as catdoc.  back to my per substitutions.
> > 	that works, along with vi's Builtin subs.
> 
> Have you considered using whatever replaces the most special characters,
> and fixing the few characters that remain with sed?

exactly!!!

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