Ben Scott wrote:
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 6:53 PM, Alex Hewitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I just tried to read these files again with Word and it can read them.
I'll see if there's a way to read/convert these files from a batch job.
Not a traditional batch file, I don't think, but it should
Ben Scott writes:
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 6:53 PM, Alex Hewitt wrote:
I just tried to read these files again with Word and it can read them.
I'll see if there's a way to read/convert these files from a batch job.
Not a traditional batch file, I don't think, but it should be very
If you have python and the pywin32 libraries installed, a script like this
works...
Adjust the dirs at the beginning. This will convert to rtf (and strips the
last three letters of the filename and changes them to rtf).
If you want txt, change rtf to txt and 6 to 2 in the SaveAs (the numbers
come
Shawn O'Shea wrote:
Putting on my python-tutor hat...
import win32com.client
import os
docsdir = C:\Documents and Settings\shawn\My Documents\wordtest
outdir = C:\Documents and Settings\shawn\My Documents\converted
Raw strings or / or doubled \\ would be prudent here.
docslist =
A description of the layout of the recently published Microsoft
Office file formats along with some illuminating comments
about the various historical influences that lead up to their
current states:
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/02/19.html
Quite the tangled mess and very hard to
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 11:52 AM, Michael ODonnell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Quite the tangled mess and very hard to write compliant FOSS
apps against, but (at least on the surface) apparently not
the result of an actively evil intent.
A-yup. Lots of people (me included) have been saying
One of the original goals in Vista was to replace
the legacy code still doing important stuff. After struggling for two
years, they *gave up*.
I can relate to that. Digital, at one time, tried to eliminate one of
the arcane data addressing modes in the VAX architecture. They checked
with all
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 1:18 PM, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 11:52 AM, Michael ODonnell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Quite the tangled mess and very hard to write compliant FOSS
apps against, but (at least on the surface) apparently not
the result of an
On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 13:18 -0500, Ben Scott wrote:
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 11:52 AM, Michael ODonnell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Quite the tangled mess and very hard to write compliant FOSS
apps against, but (at least on the surface) apparently not
the result of an actively evil intent.
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 3:58 PM, Alex Hewitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A friend of ours wrote a bunch of recipe files using something called
Microsoft Write.
Yah, Windows Write is/was one of the accessories that came with
Windows 3.x. It morphed into WordPad in Windows 95 and later.
WordPad
On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:58:53 -0500
Alex Hewitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A friend of ours wrote a bunch of recipe files using something called
Microsoft Write. Files created with that tool have a .wri extension.
Theoretically Microsoft Word is supposed to be able to read such files
but I found
On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 17:23 -0500, Ben Scott wrote:
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 3:58 PM, Alex Hewitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A friend of ours wrote a bunch of recipe files using something called
Microsoft Write.
Yah, Windows Write is/was one of the accessories that came with
Windows
On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 17:23 -0500, Ben Scott wrote:
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 3:58 PM, Alex Hewitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A friend of ours wrote a bunch of recipe files using something called
Microsoft Write.
Yah, Windows Write is/was one of the accessories that came with
Windows
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 6:53 PM, Alex Hewitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I just tried to read these files again with Word and it can read them.
I'll see if there's a way to read/convert these files from a batch job.
Not a traditional batch file, I don't think, but it should be very
possible with
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