On Wed, Jun 24, 1998 at 10:57:03AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Tue, Jun 23, 1998 at 09:34:00AM -0700, Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote: > > Why would strings show only the first, and not all of the texts? > > It will show both. However, it could show you text that, as far as Word > is concerned, is no longer in the document. Also the changes might > be stored such that they can't be read by themselves but they change > the meaning of the original significantly. Actually thats not exactly true...its half true :) It will show you stuff that "as far as word is concerned has been deleted." It WILL NOT however show you the "added text" the added text is not stored as text (as far as I could see)...looked like it was maybe even compressed (probably not very well :) ) > Of course, as Ted points out, strings might show you all sorts of things > the author didn't want you to see :-) I think this has been on comp.risks > within the last few months. I think I also pointed this out but: as I read on BUGTRAQ, that ONLY goes for Mac versions...and it goes for ANY program which uses OLE extensions (ie only M$ products). This is actually a bug in the OLE system...and was fixed for Windows a long time ago (gues sthe Windows and Mac OLE source trees are completly split) -Steve -- ** Stephen Carpenter ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** sjc@delphi.com ** "I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of." -- Clarance Darrow
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