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From: Andrei Moutchkine <muchandr@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>
To: Dennis Shasha <shasha@cs.nyu.edu>
Subject: Re: word docs in unix
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I either pipe to this thing:

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STRINGS(1)              FreeBSD General Commands Manual

NAME
     strings - find printable strings in a file

SYNOPSIS
     strings [-afo] [-n number] [file ...]

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which is my oldfashioned way, or use Yahoo webmail, which now renders
them into bitmaps. I wasn't kidding about the erased bits at all, BTW...

On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, Dennis Shasha wrote:

> Andrei,
> How exactly do you see word docs on unix?
> Dennis
> 


