Try running it with strings -a which tells it to look for ascii instead of unicode. BTW thanks everyone for their suggestions. And yes the windows strings utility came in very handy, as I didn't have access to unix to examine files. For those that are interested I am investigating a case of academic misconduct. Basically two students handed in the same assignment, and one is claiming the other student stole it, so I was trying to work out if there was any evidence in the word document itself which might indicate which student is telling the truth. Thanks again, Nicole At 14:10 19/09/01 +0000, you wrote: >Just downloaded Strings from sysinternals. Very cool :) >But I do have a question about it.... > >Although it gives me lots of information about the file there still seems >to be lots of information missing. Such as the actual text of the >document. Also, I believe that the printer that the document was defaulted >to print to is also included as part of the document. So question >is....where's the rest of the stuff?? > >Thanks, >Barry -- Nicole Haywood Phone: +61 2 93515504 Network Security Officer Fax: +61 2 93515001 University of Sydney Email: N.Haywoodat_private ----------------------------------------------------------------- This list is provided by the SecurityFocus ARIS analyzer service. For more information on this free incident handling, management and tracking system please see: http://aris.securityfocus.com
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