Re: Fwd: Re: how to read a .msg file
Kieren Diment, 2002-Aug-07 17:26 +1000:
> > > On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 01:29:25PM -0700, Jeff wrote:
> > > | Shri Shrikumar, 2002-Aug-06 20:05 +0100:
> > > | > On Tue, 2002-08-06 at 18:34, Jeff wrote:
> > > | > > I've got a few .msg files that I need to read, but I can't figure out
> > > | > > how to read them without moving them to an MS machine. I'm googling
> > > | > > around and I haven't found anything yet. I also found and looked at
> > > | > > goldedplus, but couldn't seem to make it do what I wanted...it
> > > | > > probably doesn't do what I'm want though.
> > > | > >
> > > | > > Any suggestions?
>
> try: strings filename >> new_filename.
>
> maybe it's compressed, so try playing with gzip first maybe?
Using strings cleaned it up quite a bit. I can read it much easier,
thanks. This also makes it easy to edit.
thanks,
jc
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Jeff Coppock Systems Engineer
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