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Date:	Fri, 7 May 1999 03:00:26 PDT
From:	Dallas Legan <dallasii@kincyb.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-general@scoug.com
To:	scoug-general@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-General: Re: .DOC blues

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> Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 17:55:24 PDT
> Reply-To: scoug-general@scoug.com
> From: Peter Skye
> To: scoug-general@scoug.com
> Subject: SCOUG-General: .DOC blues
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> Dallas Legan wrote:
> >
> > Anyone know of a quick and dirty utility to convert
> > .doc files to plain ASCII text files? I just got
> > mailed two of these in one day, so maybe I'll have
> > to learn to cope with them. :-(
>
> What program creates a .DOC file? If it's Word, I can point you at a
> couple of different readers.

Yeah, its word.

>
> - Peter Skye
>
>
> .
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> Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 23:05:12 PDT
> Reply-To: scoug-general@scoug.com
> From: "Dave Watson"
> To: scoug-general@scoug.com
> Subject: SCOUG-General: .DOC blues
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>
> Presume you mean Word files. I open them with the editor. The
**********

Oops. I tried tedit and epm, and with both of them the text was still
to jumbled up to make any sense. 'e' was much better.

> text is ... text. The only part you can't read is the formatting stuff
> (sometimes called Word goo). Also, sometimes you can see stuff
> the originator thought he deleted, but is still in the file.
>
> You can get a Win16 utility from Microsoft that will open them in
> native form, runs okay under Warp.
>

Anyone remember the name, got an exact URL?

Regards,
Dallas E. Legan II
(562) 862 - 4854 ext. '*'

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