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.