* [TUHS] attachments: MIME and uuencode (fwd)
@ 2017-03-13 12:41 Dave Horsfall
2017-03-13 15:35 ` Larry McVoy
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From: Dave Horsfall @ 2017-03-13 12:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
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@quintile.net>
To: dave at 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
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2017-03-13 12:41 [TUHS] attachments: MIME and uuencode (fwd) Dave Horsfall
@ 2017-03-13 15:35 ` Larry McVoy
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From: Larry McVoy @ 2017-03-13 15:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
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...
>
> --
> Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer."
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2017 11:39:45 +0000
> From: Steve Simon <steve at quintile.net>
> To: dave at 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 at horsfall.org>
> To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs at tuhs.org>
> Subject: Re: [TUHS] attachments: MIME and uuencode
>
> On Sun, 12 Mar 2017, Larry McVoy wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > 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."
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