On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Carl Cerecke wrote:

> I Linux, I use "strings <filename> | less".
>
> The formatting sucks, but the content is usually there.

tr -c '[:print:]\r' ' ' | perl -npe 's{\r}{\n\n}g' | fold -s

Does something about the formatting as well.

> There is extra bonus information as well.

Yip. All the undelete info. See what the @^%$#! really thought on the
issue...



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