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On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 6:55 PM, Paul Sutton <zleap@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 27/03/11 18:42, Kevin Lucas wrote: >> Hi all >> I have had an interesting time with a Win user and an Open Office .ODT >> that crashed ( a 24 pager written on the fly with no notes) and the box >> "save a Copy" was not checked in Preferences. >> SO after trying 2 File recovery gizmoes in Windows and failing I looked >> in to it in Linux >> >> Opening the File with Archive Manager gives a List if Files within the >> crashed file and contents.xml and styles.xml are easily read in to gedit >> or bulefish etc. >> >> The error we had was a Duplicate style at line 2 column 6231 >> >> I found this point ( all the content was on the one line ) and removed >> the duplicate Tag >> >> Open the file again and got a Similar error but a different col number >> knowing we can go like this forever (there were 118472 cols in this >> file) I am thinking I just want the text out of this file. >> So html2txt contents.xml >goodtext.txt >> >> 2 secs later >> a Good paragraphed txt file of the Orig. >> Brilliant ! >> So good the windows user has a copy of peppermint linux on a Live Cd to >> play with. > > > > This is the sort of thing we need to present at talks as an example of > where Linux can be useful should other operating systems such as windows > fail, > > Paul Absolutely - great testimonial :-) Roly -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq