Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 15:50:30 +0200 From: Marc van Kempen <marc@bowtie.nl> To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: ada@not-enough.bandwidth.org (Ada T Lim), hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MS Word documents (was: Advice sought on PnP configuration) Message-ID: <199707311350.PAA23341@nietzsche.bowtie.nl> In-Reply-To: msmith's message of Thu, 31 Jul 1997 21:37:27 %2B0930. <199707311207.VAA28144@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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> > To answer Grog's question; there was a discussion of this very issue a > while back here, and the upshot was that the one individual that had > come close to deciphering the Word document format was sat on by > Microsoft's lawyers. There is apparently some documentation somewhere > (ref Terry, IIRC) which might allow you to read Word documents, but at > the cost of your mortal soul. > I remembered saving a reference... http://wwwwbs.cs.tu-berlin.de/~schwartz/pmh/ It has a sort of description of the word 6.0 document format. Marc. > -- > ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ > ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ > ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ > ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ > ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[ ---------------------------------------------------- Marc van Kempen BowTie Technology Email: marc@bowtie.nl WWW & Databases tel. +31 40 2 43 20 65 fax. +31 40 2 44 21 86 http://www.bowtie.nl ----------------------------------------------------
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