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by robbinsr

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I need a program that runs like an ASCII/Hex editor (i.e. Diskedit / Review / DScan) that will examine a Power Point presentation and pull out only text values. If that is not possible even a dos based program that runs a search and can pull out text strings from charecter strings. I just need to avoid anything that displays pages and pages of charecters usually incorporated with a power point presentation.

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by robbinsr

I do not need an editor or command line that will pull the text out of a powerpoint for review. Current editors used are Review/Diskedit/DScan....

by gary_w

If you have access to a UNIX box, you can ftp the file over there and run the "strings" command on it. It extracts ascii strings. See "man strings" for more info.

Perhaps there's an equivalent Windows program?

Good luck,
Gary

by robbinsr

Gary - you are on the right track, I have been informed about the strings command, but we couldn't find the Windows alternative. Does anyone know of a possible windows version of linux's Strings command?

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