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Re: Way to screen out non-ASCII characters?
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Kai Großjohann |
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Re: Way to screen out non-ASCII characters? |
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Date: |
Sun, 17 Aug 2003 19:00:56 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
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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