On Mon, 15 May 2000, James Aldridge wrote:
Vesna Manojlovic wrote:
Please be aware that the next message coming to the list has a Word document attachment. The attachment is rather large.
You may want to take a look at Adri van Os's "antiword" program (for Unix, RISC OS & BeOS) to convert Microsoft Word documents into somewhat more reasonable formats (text and Postscript) (see http://www.winfield.demon.nl/ for details). In this case it reduced the 600+ kbyte encoded attachment (461,312 byte Word document) to an 8,040 byte text file:
461312 May 15 13:48 Working_Party_Briefing_paper_GPRS_addressing.doc 8040 May 15 13:48 Working_Party_Briefing_paper_GPRS_addressing.txt
Warning: I tried that as well, then wondered what was in the other 450000 bytes, so I opened the document in Word. If you open the document in Word, you'll see a M$ Word icon indicating a second word document that is included in the first one. Clicking on the icon will open a second document with more text. Antiword doesn't recognize this, so the 8040 bytes is only part of the text. Henk ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Henk Uijterwaal Email: henk.uijterwaal@ripe.net RIPE Network Coordination Centre WWW: http://www.ripe.net/home/henk Singel 258 Phone: +31.20.535-4414, Fax -4445 1016 AB Amsterdam Home: +31.20.4195305 The Netherlands Mobile: +31.6.55861746 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ A man can take a train and never reach his destination. (Kerouac, well before RFC2780).