From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 17 02:21:47 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id CAA06463 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 17 Feb 1997 02:21:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from empire.hw.nl (empire.hw.nl [194.151.67.8]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id CAA06458 for ; Mon, 17 Feb 1997 02:21:42 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by empire.hw.nl (8.8.5/1.00) id LAA25248; Mon, 17 Feb 1997 11:20:32 +0100 (MET) Received: from orac.hw.nl(192.168.2.7) by empire.hw.nl via smap (V1.3) id sma025227; Mon Feb 17 11:20:27 1997 Received: by orac.hw.nl id LAA07962; Mon, 17 Feb 1997 11:18:22 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 11:18:22 +0100 From: peter@hw.nl (Peter Korsten) To: Andrew.Gordon@net-tel.co.uk, peter@hw.nl Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: MS Word file format (was: MIME applications for FreeBSD) References: <"40ba-970216001031-F016*/G=Andrew/S=Gordon/O=NET-TEL X-Mailer: Mutt 0.57 Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: ; from Peter Korsten on Feb 16, 1997 19:22:18 +0100 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk (I've gotten more questions about where to find the document and I expect more on my UUCP-node, therefore I Cc it to 'hackers'. It's a bit off-topic though, sorry for that.) Peter Korsten shared with us: > Andrew.Gordon@net-tel.co.uk shared with us: > > > Actually, someone (a student?) at the Technical University of Berlin > > > has described the general Microsoft OLE file format. He states that > > > this he isn't sure about the format and all variables, therefore > > > he calls it the "LAOLA" file format. (Check it out with Alta Vista!) > > > He also provides a library in Perl and a program to convert a MS > > > Word document into an ASCII file. > > > > Any chance of a more precise reference? I have tried everything I can > > think of in AltaVista, but I can't find it. The document can be found here: http://wwwwbs.cs.tu-berlin.de/~schwartz/pmh/ - Peter -- Peter Korsten peter@hw.nl http://www.hw.nl/~peter/ Haesenbos, Wetzels & Van der Heijden Multimedia Support