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Date:	Wed, 11 Sep 2002 14:50:29 +0200
To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Re: Bridge between windows and Cygwin to use awk on windows files
Message-ID:	<20020911125029.GF759@thomas-guettler.de>
Reply-To:	Thomas Guettler <thomas AT thomas-guettler DOT de>
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From:	Thomas Guettler <guettli AT thomas-guettler DOT de>

On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 08:25:51PM -0700, Bassim Karkachi wrote:
> Hi -
> I'm beginner, I'm trying to set up a directory where I can find windows
> files while using cygwin. I would like to be able to run some awk script on
> windows created files. Any help or suggestion

What do you mean with "windows created files"?

Do you mean MS-Word and Excel files? Sorry, but they use a binary
unkown file format. You might be able to export them to text, csv or
html and then use cygwin tools on those files.

 thomas

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