> Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2000 14:44:41 +0000
> From: "Bastiaan Edelman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Is there a viewer and/or coverter for WORD => ASCII ?
> I get many mails with WORD attachments and I do the following:
> step 1: clip off the header and the end => save the text
> step 2: many caracters are to be converted (7+ bits)
1. in Word for DOS (up to version 6.0) the plain text is contained as
one block in the center of the file, formatting information in the
header and at the end. I am using primitive programs to cut them off.
The rest is only conversion between DOS codepages
2. in Word for WINDOWS file structure is much more complicated. This
is the almost last reason why I have occasionally to reboot in
WINDOWS and save some document in Wordpad as plain text. If the
documents do not contain any tables this will not be necessary. You
might use catdoc to obtain ascii text from Word documents:
http://www.ice.ru/~vitus/catdoc/ver-0.9.html
The codepage conversion (WINDOWS codepages to DOS codepages) can be
done by catdoc as well.
Christof Lange - Prague
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