View .DOC files with strings

[Stewart C. Russell]

Peter L. Peres wrote:
> 
> <document.doc gawk '{printf("%s\n\n",$0);next;}'|groff -man -Tascii >out.txt

you can do much the same with

  strings document.doc | fmt -s

Similar caveats apply.

Stewart

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