From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 17 05:25:40 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id FAA14704 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 17 Feb 1997 05:25:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from labinfo.iet.unipi.it (labinfo.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id FAA14680 for ; Mon, 17 Feb 1997 05:25:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (luigi@localhost) by labinfo.iet.unipi.it (8.6.5/8.6.5) id NAA03025; Mon, 17 Feb 1997 13:27:07 +0100 From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199702171227.NAA03025@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: MIME applications for FreeBSD To: p.richards@elsevier.co.uk (Paul Richards) Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 13:27:07 +0100 (MET) Cc: peter@grendel.IAEhv.nl, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <57lo8n1via.fsf@tees.elsevier.co.uk> from "Paul Richards" at Feb 17, 97 12:12:26 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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/ _____________________________|______________________________________