Posting went thru?

William O'Higgins william.ohiggins-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org
Thu Aug 4 15:14:00 UTC 2005


On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 10:43:43AM -0400, Stewart C. Russell wrote:
>Sy wrote:
>>
>>Oh.. I'm sure any good Linux sysadmin can write a perl script to
>>interpret those.  ;)
>
>Perl is overkill:
>
> strings evil.doc | fmt -s
>
>If you can't get the sense of the document out of that, it probably 
>wasn't worth reading.

I use antiword, and find it excellent.  I use it to read Worm, er, Word
documents inline in emails in mutt, which is very handy.  Antiword does
a very good job of preserving the presentational white space in the
document while still letting you read it in the console.
-- 

yours,

William

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