[nzlug] Extracting text from a .cwk doc

[Johann Schoonees]

Hi List

Apologies, this may be slightly OT.  I have a file with extension .cwk 
apparently emailed from a Mac judging by its AppleDouble encoding.  I am 
only interested in its text content.

The person who sent the file to me seems not to use computers much 
because I have not been able to get them to re-send it in any other 
format (or even respond to emails).  I don't have access to a Mac and I 
don't have their permission to share the document with others.

Crudely cutting out the text body in emacs and running that through 
mac2unix does produce something vaguely readable, but it is mangled by 
control sequences like ^@^@^C^L appearing in the middle of words, and 
quotation marks replaced by non-ASCII characters.

Can anyone recommend a conversion filter?  Not much luck with Google. 
It shouldn't need much more than a small tr or sed script if one knew 
the translations.

Thanks,
Johann

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