Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 09:12:19 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: peter@grendel.IAEhv.nl (Peter Korsten) Cc: spaz@u.washington.edu, jkh@time.cdrom.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MSWord docs... Message-ID: <199703211612.JAA15782@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <19970321023634.25431@grendel.IAEhv.nl> from "Peter Korsten" at Mar 21, 97 02:36:34 am
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> I don't know whether the link has been removed. The guy does state > that he figured out a file format himself, which happens to look > remarkably similar to the MS OLE 2.0 file format in general and > the Word format in particular. (But only the raw text can be > extracted, forget about things as tables and formatting.) The "File Formats Handbook" by _Born_ makes a similar claim. > I do know that the MS Word format was removed, by request of MS, from > the "Wotsit File Format Collection" (http://www.wotsit.demon.co.uk). I saw this too... > 3. The docs suppose that you use the OLE 2.0 API to read the word > files. We don't have docs on that, but a lot can be learnt from > the documentation of the German guy. Moreover, it wouldn't be > a bad idea to be able to read Access and Excel files as well, > if there were an OLE 2.0 API in FreeBSD. This is the "OLESS" stuff, right? Do you have a URL for this doc? Regards, Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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