[nzlug] Extracting text from a .cwk doc

[Phillip Hutchings]

The file's from Clarisworks, a long dead office suite. Until recently  
most macs shipped with AppleWorks, which was the same product. Your  
best bet is to find a Mac user who can read it and export to something  
useful. I can do this if you like as Pages, Apple's new word  
processor, can read the old documents.

On 11/10/2007, at 12:30, Johann Schoonees 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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