Bridge between windows and Cygwin to use awk on windows files

[Thomas Guettler]

On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 08:25:51PM -0700, Bassim Karkachi wrote:
> Hi -
> I'm beginner, I'm trying to set up a directory where I can find windows
> files while using cygwin. I would like to be able to run some awk script on
> windows created files. Any help or suggestion

What do you mean with "windows created files"?

Do you mean MS-Word and Excel files? Sorry, but they use a binary
unkown file format. You might be able to export them to text, csv or
html and then use cygwin tools on those files.

 thomas

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Thomas Guettler <guettli@thomas-guettler.de>
http://www.thomas-guettler.de


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