[nzlug] Extracting text from a .cwk doc

[Steve Holdoway]

strings <filename> any use???

Steve

On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 12:30:34 +1300
Johann Schoonees <j.schoonees at irl.cri.nz> wrote:

> 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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