From: kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (Kai Großjohann)
Subject: Re: Way to screen out non-ASCII characters?
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2003 19:00:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <84ada8xlpz.fsf@slowfox.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m14r0lccyp.fsf@g3.com
Edward Dodge <someone@g3.com> writes:
> Does anyone know if there is a mode or something that you can use in
> EMACS to screen out everything that *isn't* ASCII text? I am
> currently trying to get some old documents converted to a plain-old
> ASCII text file, and I don't have access to the original program to
> "save as text," nor do I want to write a script for this.
I guess that MacOS X has the "strings" command.
strings -a old-document.doc > plain-old.txt
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-17 17:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-14 0:14 Way to screen out non-ASCII characters? Edward Dodge
2003-08-14 16:14 ` roodwriter
2003-08-14 23:32 ` Joshua D. Guttman
2003-08-17 17:00 ` Kai Großjohann [this message]
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