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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