help with file recovery?

[Todd Denniston]

David Timms wrote, On 05/14/2008 06:46 PM:
> Todd Denniston wrote:
>> Todd Denniston wrote, On 05/09/2008 03:31 PM:
>>> Dave Stevens wrote, On 05/09/2008 03:02 PM:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I have a MS Word file from several years ago that I want to look at. 
>>>
>>> Are you sure it is Word and not Write or Works?
> Todd: I see you got a workaround, however, I would be interested to know 
> what the following thinks the file type is ?
> $ file myunknownfile"
> 
> This relies on content not file extension.
> 
for i in *wri *.doc ;do file $i;done
mod10_99.wri: Microsoft Word Document
mod10_99.doc: Microsoft Office Document

the .wri is from MSWin 3 or 3.11's write program.
the .doc is from MS Word circa word95.

the .doc opens fine in OOo, but the .wri causes an older[1] OOo to ask If I 
want to convert an ascii document and a newer[2] OOo to die.  The ascii to OOo 
conversion almost holds some of the formatting.  Unfortunately I am not sure 
if I want to put the info out on the net for others to see... it was a VERY 
tailored resume.

[1] with OOo openoffice.org-core-2.0.1.1-7.1
[2] openoffice.org-core-2.3.0-6.14.fc8, drops an
soffice.bin: xcb_io.c:452: _XRead: Assertion `dpy->xcb->reply_data != 0' 
failed./usr/lib/openoffice.org/program/soffice: line 147:  8459 Aborted 
"$sd_prog/$sd_binary" "$@"

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Todd Denniston
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Harnessing the Power of Technology for the Warfighter