Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 15:58:14 -0800 (PST) From: Josef Grosch <jgrosch> To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Cc: leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, johnp@lodgenet.com, se@freebsd.org, spaz@u.washington.edu, jkh@time.cdrom.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MSWord docs... Message-ID: <199703262358.PAA04073@jgrosch.hq.freegate.net> In-Reply-To: <199703262251.JAA02746@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from Michael Smith at "Mar 27, 97 09:21:58 am"
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>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 Not to get off the subject, but there is a web page of a project in Germany that is attempting to reverse engineer the Word 6 and Word 7 document format. I seem to remember that the person who started the project is a graduate student in Berlin. I'll see if I can't find the web page. Josef "Gentlemen, start your search engines" Grosch -- Josef Grosch | Laugh while you can, monkey boy | FreeBSD 2.1.6 jgrosch@FreeGate.net | - John Warfin - | UNIX for the masses
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