From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 26 15:59:03 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA13019 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 15:59:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailhost-hq.freegate.net ([205.178.36.9]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA13000 for ; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 15:58:47 -0800 (PST) From: Josef Grosch Received: (qmail 2407 invoked by alias); 26 Mar 1997 23:59:25 -0000 Received: from h235.free-gate.com (HELO jgrosch.hq.freegate.net) (205.178.20.235) by h254.free-gate.com with SMTP; 26 Mar 1997 23:59:24 -0000 Received: (from jgrosch@localhost) by jgrosch.hq.freegate.net (8.7.6/8.7.3) id PAA04073; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 15:58:15 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199703262358.PAA04073@jgrosch.hq.freegate.net> Subject: Re: MSWord docs... In-Reply-To: <199703262251.JAA02746@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from Michael Smith at "Mar 27, 97 09:21:58 am" To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 15:58:14 -0800 (PST) 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 Reply-To: jgrosch@FreeGate.net 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 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