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Re: How to read a word 7 file?



Hamish Moffatt writes:
 > On Tue, Jun 23, 1998 at 11:26:18AM +0100, Ted Harding wrote:
 > > A rough-and-ready way to do just what you're asking is to use the "strings"
 > > command:
 > > 
 > >    strings wordfile.doc > wordfile.txt
 > 
 > It's not quite so simple; Word's "fast save" mechanism actually appends
 > changes to the document since the last save to the end of the file.
 > Once some number of fast saves has been exceeded it will rewrite the whole lot.
 > "strings" is only going to show the original at the last non-fast-save time.
 > This could be completely different!
 >

Why would strings show only the first, and not all of the texts?

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Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella                 Product Engineer
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