| From: | Alastair M. Robinson |
| Date: | 6 Sep 2000 at 23:25:14 |
| Subject: | Re: Sanskrit not |
Hi Garry,
> Due to the upward mobility at work I now find myself having to deal with
> Documents produced by that well known memory gobbler/ M$ word/ . What I want
> to know is what's the best util for both reading and writing Word Documents
> on the Amiga. Unfortunately due to Company anti-virus policy ASCII is
> banned.
LOL ;-D
I suppose pointing out the idiocy of this policy wouldn't be good for your
career prospects?
Anyway, WoW (aminet/util/conv/WoW.lha) works well for me, for converting
from Word to ASCII. (If we smile sweetly, Neil will probably tell us
which AACDs its been on too ;-)
BTW, have you ever seen a hex dump of a word file? It's *unbelievable*
just how much sheer crap gets included - quite apart from the infamous
unique ID numbers identifying the machine that created the document. It's
even possible for snippets of previous documents to be included 8^0
To see it for yourself, open a shell and type:
type file.doc opt h
and watch as hundreds of lines of garbage fly past, with a tiny piece of
plain ASCII text in the middle somewhere!
All the best,
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