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From: guttman@mitre.org (Joshua D. Guttman)
Cc: "Joshua D. Guttman" <guttman@mitre.org>
Subject: Re: Way to screen out non-ASCII characters?
Date: 14 Aug 2003 19:32:40 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <nhalltvx1bb.fsf@banjara.mitre.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m14r0lccyp.fsf@g3.com

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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.
> 

If the documents are in MS Word format or something like that, then
you can use the undoc program, attached below.  


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-08-14 23:32 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 [this message]
2003-08-17 17:00 ` Kai Großjohann

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