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

[rikona]

On Tue, 16 Jun 2020 19:09:31 -0400
H <agents at meddatainc.com> wrote:

> 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?

I would, but AFAIK, there is absolutely zero info available about the
binary file format. That will make it rather difficult to decode
properly.