On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 04:32:46PM -0700, Lindsay Crawford wrote:
>
>I hope there is an easy answer for this one. Recently I received an
>attachment in MS Word. I found one editor in "applications" called
>Advanced which would give me some of the text but would not handle
>the document as it should be.
>
>Is there anything in the standard Mandrake set capable of reading a
>MS Word document?
>
strings word.doc | less
will give you the plain text elements of the Word file, which is often
enough to puzzle out the sender's intent. For added fun, since most Word
users employ the "fast save" feature, what you get is really like a RCS
log of various editions of the document! If you've gotten, for example,
a "personalized" spam, you can see who else had personalized versions prepared.
Now that Mickeysoft owns a piece of Corel, any bets on M$-Office for Linux?
--
It's a hard work, being a network pusher. Your customers beep you in
the middle of the night, hungry for another fix. But, what can you do?
Customer satisfaction and all that crap...
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