13 Mar
2017
13 Mar
'17
9:35 p.m.
Hey Steve,
I'll take a crack at porting these if you don't mind. I hate word
and if your docx2troff can tease apart a word doc into roff, that
would be *awesome*.
On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 11:41:51PM +1100, Dave Horsfall wrote:
I think this was supposed to go public...
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Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2017 11:39:45 +0000
From: Steve Simon <steve(a)quintile.net>
To: dave(a)horsfall.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] attachments: MIME and uuencode
I still actively fight office. I wrote docx2troff and xlsx2txt.
The former can extract txt or troff source from modern (DOCX / OPC) document
as can the latter though, by their nature excel tables don't map well to tbl(1).
These are written for plan9 and so the libraries are a bit different,
but they could be ported to unix without too much pain.
Shout if anyone is interested.
-Steve
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2017 16:39:29 +1100 (EST)
From: Dave Horsfall <dave(a)horsfall.org>
To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs(a)tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] attachments: MIME and uuencode
On Sun, 12 Mar 2017, Larry McVoy wrote:
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This actually caught some really bad behaviour on
HP's part (this is all
ancient history so I doubt anyone cares). They sucked it into Word,
turned on track changes, made some minor changes, then turned off track
changes and made some major changes. If I had been trusting Word's
history we would not have noticed the major changes. But I didn't, I
caught them, when they were presented to HP they did the classic
"however did that happen, we have no idea, blah, blah, blah". Pretty
darn sleazy.
A former boss of mine used to get quotes in Word all the time (we were a
Unix house); he used to run "strings" against the document, and challenge
the supplier with the fact that they were giving a competitor a better deal.
To this day, "strings" is still my best Word decoder...
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Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will
suffer."