On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 22:52:38 +1100 Richard Hayes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dear list, > > First I am sorry to be so off topic but a new mother uni student needs help. > > A friend of mine is a new mother and is trying to study as well. She has an > assignment in Word that is corrupted and needs to recover it. > > I can use some of the commercial word recovery tools to read the file but they > are about US$ 90. That seems a bit dear to recover one file. > > Does anyone have licenced copies of recovery software to help? > > Or Is there other ways to recover the file? The strings program (part of binutils) should do the trick. You will loose all formating but you should be any text that is still intact. Erik -- +-----------------------------------------------------------+ Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yes it's valid) +-----------------------------------------------------------+ "I don't think any MS Exec will ever die of old age. Satan doesn't need the competition." -- Digital Wokan on LinuxToday.com -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
