[PLUG] Unknown Document File Types

cyberhick cyberhick at gmail.com
Sat Aug 27 04:40:47 UTC 2005


If all you need to do is extract the text, you can try running
"strings" on the file and see if you get anything useful.

On 8/25/05, Richard C. Steffens <rsteff at comcast.net> wrote:
> I have a set of files from a Mac using friend, who isn't very
> sophisticated around computers. He composed this set of files a number
> of years ago -- well before OS-X -- and doesn't remember what word
> processor he was using at the time. It appears that there are several
> different file types involved, so he probably used different word
> processors at different times.
> 
> ...



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