[aclug-L] Re: re compusa and linux applications

[John Phillips <jphillip@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The message I responded to had no mention of a binary file.
John Phillips


On Sun, 28 May 2000, Jonathan Hall wrote:

> No... less foobar.doc would be much worse... it's not an ASCII/text-based
> file... it's binary.  If you're lucky, you might actually come across
> semgents of recognizable text... but any graphics, forms, formatting,
> margins, etc, will totally NOT work with less.
> 
> 
> On Sun, May 28, 2000 at 11:50:46AM -0500, Lowell wrote:
> > John Phillips wrote:
> > > 
> > > less docfilename
> > 
> > alas, here is a sample of "less foo.abw." I assume a
> > .doc file would
> > come out approximately the same. (?) 
> > 
> > <p props="margin-left:0.5000in;
> > text-align:center"><c props="font-size:24pt;
> > font-style:italic; font-weight:bold">Troublesome
> > Pairs Exercise</c></p>
> > <p props="margin-left:0.5000in;
> > text-align:center"></p>
> > <p props="margin-left:0.5000in; text-align:left"><c
> > props="font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10pt;
> > font-style:italic; font-weight:bold">          
> > Directions: </c><c props="font-family:Times New
> > Roman; font-size:10pt; font-style:normal;
> > font-weight:normal">Choose the proper verb form from
> > the two choices offered, and </c></p>
> > <p props="margin-left:0.5000in; text-align:left"><c
> > props="font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10pt;
> > font-style:normal;
> > font-weight:normal">                      write it
> > in the blank  to the right.</c></p>
> > 
> > I have to look hard to find anything from the actual
> > text because
> > it's highly formatted; perhaps there's another step
> > I could take
> > to strip the formatting info, but less doesn't do it
> > by itself.
> > 
> > Lowell
> > 
> > "Never assume malice where incompetence suffices."
> > 
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