TransData

This filter attempts to find ASCII text in data files using the Unix style
command line tool 'strings'.

The idea behind this transloader is that if one has a binary
file e.g. a word processor document whose format is not known,
it is possible to attempt to work out the text contained
in it.

The traditional UNIX program for doing this is called 'strings'.
and this transloader uses a clone of strings.

The files you want to load via the filter should be given
type &FFD - Data.

Results are so so. No doubt a smarter version of the strings
program could be devised to do better.



David Pilling

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