From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 26 14:53:45 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA07128 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 14:53:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA07085; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 14:53:28 -0800 (PST) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id JAA02746; Thu, 27 Mar 1997 09:21:58 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199703262251.JAA02746@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: MSWord docs... In-Reply-To: <9703261920.AA11888@gnu.sdsp.mc.xerox.com> from Marty Leisner at "Mar 26, 97 11:20:57 am" To: leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com (Marty Leisner) Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 09:21:58 +1030 (CST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, johnp@lodgenet.com, se@freebsd.org, spaz@u.washington.edu, jkh@time.cdrom.com, hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Marty Leisner stands accused of saying: > > John Prince stands accused of saying: > > > How does that help with word95 and the office 97 stuff.. > > > Most windows machines shipped today do not ship with word6.x. > > > > Word 7 is Word 6 with different icons, basically. The file format > > and structure are the same. > > Is there anything which explains the format for a word document? Presumably, Microsoft have some internal documentation. Presumably, if you were willing to sign a billion-year contract with Bill, you too could read this document. I suspect that if you were to try to do something useful with the contents of said document, you would probably be reamed by Bill's lawyers. > Can word6 be viewed on dos? (is there a dos reader for word6 documents?) Not directly, and no. You can convert to a format for which there is a viewer (eg. pdf), but you need word to do that in the first place. > marty -- ]] 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 [[