aerobelly,
It cannot recover numbers
I suggest you run "man strings". A number was an ASCII char last time I checked.
Linux (or any other Unix) program "strings"... It cannot recover numbers, formulae, or line/column data.
The whole purpose of me suggesting it was as a last resort method, given that the file is corrupted he can't exactly expect a perfect recovery other than from backup ! You're lucky I didn't suggest he do a hexdump !
