Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 13:27:07 +0100 (MET) From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> To: p.richards@elsevier.co.uk (Paul Richards) Cc: peter@grendel.IAEhv.nl, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MIME applications for FreeBSD Message-ID: <199702171227.NAA03025@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <57lo8n1via.fsf@tees.elsevier.co.uk> from "Paul Richards" at Feb 17, 97 12:12:26 pm
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> peter@grendel.IAEhv.nl (Peter Korsten) writes: > > Actually, someone (a student?) at the Technical University of Berlin > > has described the general Microsoft OLE file format. He states that ... > > He also provides a library in Perl and a program to convert a MS > > Word document into an ASCII file. > > Why go to all this trouble? I use RTF which is a published > specification. If you need to do batch conversion of Word to RTF then you do, but most people just "attach" documents as they are and don't care about the format being published or not, on the ground that it is a de-facto standard. I usually dump such files, but that's not always an option. Luigi -----------------------------+-------------------------------------- Luigi Rizzo | Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it | Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 | via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 | http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ _____________________________|______________________________________
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