From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Subject: [TUHS] attachments: MIME and uuencode
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2017 16:39:29 +1100 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.20.1703131633370.794@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170313012813.GN2685@mcvoy.com>
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."
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-03-13 5:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-03-12 18:13 Doug McIlroy
2017-03-12 18:22 ` Larry McVoy
2017-03-12 18:26 ` Clem Cole
2017-03-13 0:34 ` Dan Cross
2017-03-13 1:28 ` Larry McVoy
2017-03-13 5:39 ` Dave Horsfall [this message]
2017-03-13 11:37 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2017-03-13 20:21 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2017-03-13 22:14 ` Doug McIlroy
2017-03-14 10:49 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2017-03-12 18:33 ` Paul Winalski
2017-03-13 5:58 ` Dave Horsfall
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2017-03-12 20:04 Noel Chiappa
2017-03-12 21:34 ` Random832
2017-03-12 22:12 ` Noel Chiappa
2017-03-13 14:58 ` Michael Kjörling
2017-03-13 21:56 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-03-14 10:33 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2017-03-16 18:52 ` Michael Kjörling
2017-03-12 18:57 Andy Valencia
2017-03-12 15:10 Noel Chiappa
2017-03-11 19:07 Mary Ann Horton
2017-03-11 23:01 ` Paul Winalski
2017-03-11 23:05 ` Mary Ann Horton
2017-03-12 1:14 ` Dan Cross
2017-03-12 6:28 ` jsteve
2017-03-12 23:41 ` Gregg Levine
2017-03-13 0:00 ` Larry McVoy
2017-03-13 1:59 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-03-12 23:43 ` Mary Ann Horton
2017-03-12 21:10 ` Dave Horsfall
[not found] ` <12de3888-3a82-4a8c-9177-50e6cb4cb931.maildroid@localhost>
2017-03-19 2:34 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-03-12 13:53 ` Tim Bradshaw
2017-03-12 17:42 ` Clem Cole
2017-03-12 23:35 ` Mary Ann Horton
2017-03-13 0:07 ` Clem Cole
2017-03-13 0:09 ` Warren Toomey
2017-03-13 0:11 ` Clem Cole
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