Have you tried running the "strings" command on the file from a shell prompt? Strings
extracts any ASCII strings it can find within binaries.
NAME
strings - print the strings of printable characters in files
Will.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stone, Timothy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Redhat-List (E-mail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 9:16 PM
Subject: [OT] extracting text from binary file
> I've inherited several Quark files on Mac-formatted CDs. I'm able to open them on
>my RHL server and transfer them via scp to a Cygwin-enabled Windoze for hex , or
>binary, inspection, in TextPad (a kickass text editor for Windoze BTW) and view the
>text contents, e.g. "Four score and seven years ago..." Unfortuately, TextPad does
>not allow me to "grap" or extract this text for cut-paste in a normal text (*.txt)
>file.
>
> Is there a recommended hex editor in Linux that would allow me to select the text
>and paste it to a regular text file for editing? Maybe a Quark viewer?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Warmest Regards,
> Tim
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