From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 13 03:37:41 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id DAA04580 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 13 Feb 1997 03:37:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from isbalham.ist.co.uk (isbalham.ist.co.uk [192.31.26.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA04538 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 1997 03:36:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from gid.co.uk (uucp@localhost) by isbalham.ist.co.uk (8.8.4/8.8.4) with UUCP id LAA14582; Thu, 13 Feb 1997 11:30:50 GMT Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 11:32:49 GMT Received: from [194.32.164.2] by seagoon.gid.co.uk; Thu, 13 Feb 1997 11:32:49 GMT X-Sender: rb@194.32.164.1 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <199702130839.TAA00435@freebsd1.cimlogic.com.au> References: <199702121715.KAA00715@phaeton.artisoft.com> from Terry Lambert at "Feb 12, 97 10:15:47 am" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: John Birrell From: Bob Bishop Subject: Re: MIME applications for FreeBSD Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 8:38 am -0000 13/2/97, John Birrell wrote: >[...] >We are prevented from reverse engineering by the licence for msword >(I guess, since other MS products have that clause). MS is unlikely >to publicly document Word file format. [etc] They certainly don't seem to. Maybe reverse engineering is unnecessary: WordPad groks Word 6 format, and the source is in among the samples on the MSVC4.2 CD. Also 3rd-party converters between Word6 and are available (and referenced in MS developer materials). Maybe the developers had to pay a fat licence fee. -- Bob Bishop (0118) 977 4017 international code +44 118 rb@gid.co.uk fax (0118) 989 4254 between 0800 and 1800 UK