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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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