Waaay back when, a simple "strings" would work fine.
Of course, that was before the new M$ file formats
were "innovated."

Nowadays, you have to use things like "catdoc" and
"xls2csv":

http://www.fe.msk.ru/~vitus/catdoc/


D

* On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 10:16:53PM -0700, Jason wrote:
> 
> > If interested, please send text in plain text to john@excelco.com.  DO
> > NOT send any attachments in the form of *.DOC to me for review.  I will
> > not open them!   Principals only at this time.
> 
> Is there a linux solution (even a simply C program to strip the M$
> coding and give some decent plaintext; the M$ format files are rarely
> in a sensible order) to opening these annoying .DOC files yet?
> 
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