Moving to non-Word formats [long] (was: Re: Having trouble finding a word in multiple files

[rikona]

On Mon, 15 Jun 2020 20:22:25 -0400
H <agents at meddatainc.com> wrote:

> On June 15, 2020 7:02:49 PM EDT, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >On Tue, 16 Jun 2020 at 00:38, Mike Marchywka <marchywka at hotmail.com>
> >wrote:

[big snip...]

> I have been missing the old DOS outliners for a very long time, to
> use exactly as you describe. I think I used PC Outline the most if I
> remember correctly...

Agreed!! I still have many hundreds of .pco files with historically
important info.

But, they are coded binary files with no known way to convert them
[that I know of]. I can visually access the 'text' portions of the file
if I need to, and that is still useful.

What I'd really like is some kind of 'text extraction' tool/pgm/method
that would extract the text portions, make an ordered list of them and
let me put that text in a file. 

Recoll does not know how to read .pco files, but it could then read
some of my historical info and that would appear in my searches if
relevant.

Anyone know how to do that?

Rik