From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: lm@mcvoy.com (Larry McVoy) Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2017 08:35:33 -0700 Subject: [TUHS] attachments: MIME and uuencode (fwd) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20170313153533.GB24086@mcvoy.com> 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 > 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 > To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society > 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... > > -- > Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer." -- --- Larry McVoy lm at mcvoy.com http://www.mcvoy.com/lm