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On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 05:06:35PM +0200, Penguin Lover Arttu V. squawked: |
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> On 12/14/09, Stroller <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> > It is a 2meg file, but unfortunately, as Mick appears to have |
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> > predicted, it is called simply "Object 1" with no file extension. |
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> > Running `file` on it shows it to be a "Microsoft Office Document", but |
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> > it's apparently not the kind you can open in Word. |
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> > I suspect this is going to prove a dead loss. Thanks for your help, |
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> > though. |
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> Throwing a wild guess here. Could it be a MODI object? |
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MODI |
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> Then you have entered captive markets, might be hard to do much |
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> without software from MS. |
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Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't the original object a image of a |
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signature? If they used MODI (whose point I thought was so that you |
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have OCR on the scanned document) for an illegible scrawl, I think |
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this should be nominated for the DailyWTF.... |
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Cheers, |
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A cliche is a cliche is a cliche is a cliche is a cliche is a cliche. |
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