Posting went thru?

[Howard Gibson]

On 04 Aug 2005 11:41:33 -0400
Tim Writer <tim-s/rLXaiAEBtBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> Henry Spencer <henry-lqW1N6Cllo0sV2N9l4h3zg at public.gmane.org> writes:
> 
> > On Wed, 3 Aug 2005, Sy wrote:
> > > > Yes, including an evil MS word document.
> > > 
> > > Oh.. I'm sure any good Linux sysadmin can write a perl script to
> > > interpret those.  ;)
> > 
> > Nah, it just takes a shell script:
> > 
> > 	rm -f *.doc
> 
> I got a good chuckle out of that because I pretty much used to do exactly
> that. But, if you do want to read it,
> 
>      strings whatever.doc
> 
> has worked quite well for me in the past. And you get to see stuff (deleted
> text) they may not have wanted you to see.

   In the past, I have seen AbiWord show deleted text.  I haven't tried it lately.  Perhaps people who send me Word documents have learned to be careful.

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