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Subject: word -> text
From: ienglander-ROuZJvFXBa6Vc3sceRu5cw at public.gmane.org (Englander, Irvin)
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 12:19:00 -0400

I had some Word docs that got severely corrupted a year or so ago. Surprisingly, I was able to get much of the text back using gunzip from a command line prompt. Nothing else I tried worked. So there must be some similarity in their compression algorithms.

Irv Englander

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