On Mon, 12 Jun 2000 07:28:59, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> 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
Yeah.. step 1 and step 2
> 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:
If the text of a "Word for Windows" document has been modified often you
will have a hell of a job because all the 'old' pieces are not deleted
or in a back up file but still in the document... wich part is to be
displayed and wich part is not???
But as reflected on the list I followed the advice and downloaded
"VIEW". A very good program for viewing, printing and converting to
ASCII for WORD, WordPerfect and HTML.
I also tried the WordStar option but it failed... probably because I use
a very old WS version 3.4 (WordStar changed the system with ver. 7 and
WS2000).
I tried it on WORD '97 (Window$) WordPerfect 5.1 and HTML files, all OK!
CU Bastiaan
> 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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