*-Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella (23 Jun) | Hamish Moffatt writes: | > On Tue, Jun 23, 1998 at 11:26:18AM +0100, Ted Harding wrote: | > > A rough-and-ready way to do just what you're asking is to use the "strings" | > > command: | > > | > > strings wordfile.doc > wordfile.txt | > | > It's not quite so simple; Word's "fast save" mechanism actually appends | > changes to the document since the last save to the end of the file. | > Once some number of fast saves has been exceeded it will rewrite the whole lot. | > "strings" is only going to show the original at the last non-fast-save time. | > This could be completely different! | > | | Why would strings show only the first, and not all of the texts? |
The 'new' text will be all out of order at the end of the file. The word file keeps the orginal text at the begining of the file and then keeps all the changes at the end of the document along with some indexing mechanism to tell word were to put the new text(or remove s ome text) into the orginal text. Thus you could have a word file that is huge on disk but is completely blank because word has all the orginal info at the begining and all the info that the orginal has been deleted at the end! I personally turn off 'fast save' whenever I use word. -- Brian -- Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
