5 Feb
2000
5 Feb
'00
7:11 a.m.
At 07:05 PM 2/5/00 +0000, Tony Duell wrote:
Attacking a Word file with strings(1) often extracts
some readable text
from it. However, I wonder what I am missing, as it appears only about
1/8 of the file is said text.
Certainly within the last few years, Word was known for putting the
contents of undo buffers or previous cut operations in the .DOC file.
I know I used this trick to sometimes see the previous edits of,
say, a contract or letter that someone had sent to me in Word form. :-)
These days, if you hope to find strings in Windows-related files,
you really need a 'strings' that handles Unicode. I think I saw
one in the last year or two.
- John