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- From: Tom Wheeley <tomw@tsys.demon.co.uk>
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal.delphi.misc,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.pascal.misc,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: WORD FILE FORMAT (WINDOWS)
- Date: Mon, 11 Mar 96 19:09:36 GMT
- Organization: City Zen FM
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- In article <4hv2ho$d8t@news.interpath.net>
- softbase@mercury.interpath.net
- "Scott McMahan - Softbase Systems" writes:
-
- > Idan Feigenbaum (yfeigenbaum@decisiondata.com) wrote:
- >
- > : I need the WORD for windows file format.
- >
- > : Even knowing to take out from the .DOC file only the TEXT
- > : would be helpfull.
- >
- > Use a "strings" program.
-
- Not really a good way to deal with word files, due to Microsoft's delightful
- QuickSave `feature', where changes are simply appended to the file. Thus
- you get huge, lexically unstructured, files. :(
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- .splitbung
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