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

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On June 16, 2020 3:39:02 PM EDT, rikona <rikona at sonic.net> wrote:
>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
>
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It might be worth your time to reach out to the Recoll developer to see if he might be interested in adding this file format to the software?