Re: how to read a .msg file
On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 10:16:59PM -0700, Jeff wrote:
> Derrick 'dman' Hudson, 2002-Aug-06 22:12 -0400:
> >
> > Was any part of the file recognizable? If so then you may have some
> > hope in extracting useful data from it. Otherwise you need to figure
> > out what the data format is and either find a decoder or write one
> > yourself.
> >
>
> Since you asked, I went back and scrolled through an entire file with
> less and found that, in fact, all of the text is readable. There is
> just a lot of "<B1>^Z<E1>^@^@^@^@" kinda stuff at the beginning and at
> the end of each file. I think I'll work on a sed script to strip out
> all the gobbledeegook.
>
man strings
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