The anti-MS Word and Power-point signature tagline.

[Chuck Hallenbeck]

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Toby,

Look for a utility called "rtf2htm" which works pretty well. Once
it is in htm you can use lynx to dump it to text.

Chuck

On Mon, 12 Apr 2004, Toby Fisher wrote:

> Hi folks.
>
> As many of you do, I used to use the tag line about not sending Word or
> Ppt files, however I've discovered a rather unfortunate side-effect, and
> was wondering if it's afflicted anyone else.
>
> I have to take delivery of quite a lot of docs from people who use MS
> Office, and after seeing my signature, they try to be kind by sending me
> an rtf document.  At least with a Word doc, you can do:
>
> cat foo.doc |strings |less
> and get pretty much all of the text together and it's readable; but what
> the *#@! do you do about an rtf file which is much bigger, and has loads
> of crap between all the words?
>
> Just wondering.
>
> Cheers.
>
> p.s. you'll notice I've removed it now, not least because I now have a
> Windows lap top that was paid for.
>
>
>

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