On Mon, 14 May 2001, Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri wrote:
|I need to be able to edit the files easily. You see, these are all my
|patient files with medical histories, follow up etc. some of them run into
|20 -30 pages. I don't want to use SO or Abiword to see view/edit them.
|Converting them to html seems out because I need to have them rw. I need a
|program which will easily convert the doc files to text. I'd like to be able
|to work purely from the console. There isn't much formatting or columns in
|the files.
The best solution for you is strings ... it'll convert the files to text
format.. and you can use your favorite editor to edit it!
and the command comes with your distro...
one the prompt just type strings filename
string Patient1.doc > patient1.txt
and voila you are on ur way!
(you will have to remove a bit of junk at the top and bottom but otherwise
the file should be readable without loss of data)
Kingsly
.:: Kingsly John ICQ 14787510 ::.
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