help with file recovery? [SOLVED]

[Dave Stevens]

On Friday 09 May 2008 12:02:17 pm Dave Stevens wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a MS Word file from several years ago that I want to look at. I can
> not open it with OpenOffice Writer, Abiword, gedit. All give a message that
> indicates there is something wrong with the file format - character
> encoding, damaged file etc. But when I use less to view the contents I get
> an initial warning that the file may be binary (fair enough, it is) then it
> shows me the content I more or less expected, though horribly unformatted
> and hard to read.
>
> It is all text that I want, no figures or graphics. As far as I know I
> could cut and paste from less, or use a hex editor, but that is horribly
> tedious for 35 pages or so of text. Anyone have a suggestion?
>
> dave
> ps - F7 up to date
>

strings worked nicely. didn't get everything but enough to make the rest 
manageable.
 thanks,

D
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