Hello, On Tue, 23 Sep 2008, Bharathi Subramanian wrote: > strings - Print the strings of printable characters in files.
Also useful to see things in .doc word documents that the author may not have intended that you see! Suppose the author of the document has the common (and bad) habit of using older letters as a template for new letters, by cutting out the text and addressee and then replacing it with the new material. Since MS Word keeps all the deleted stuff in the "undelete section" of the file in case you want to restore it, this material can be viewed using strings. This actually happened to a friend of mine who got an offer letter in .doc format. Since he was using one of our Debian desktops he asked me how he could view the file. I told him to use strings (this was in 2000 or so before Abiword and OO). He not only saw the offer he had got but also the other offers the same organisation had made to others! Try it on .doc files that you have lying around --- you may be surprised! Kapil. -- _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
