From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 31 06:53:21 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id GAA10058 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 31 Jul 1997 06:53:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from news.IAEhv.nl (root@news.IAEhv.nl [194.151.64.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id GAA10053 for ; Thu, 31 Jul 1997 06:53:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from LOCAL (uucp@localhost) by news.IAEhv.nl (8.6.13/1.63) with IAEhv.nl; pid 17167 on Thu, 31 Jul 1997 13:52:59 GMT; id NAA17167 efrom: marc@nietzsche.bowtie.nl; eto: UNKNOWN Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nietzsche.bowtie.nl (8.8.2/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA23341; Thu, 31 Jul 1997 15:50:31 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: <199707311350.PAA23341@nietzsche.bowtie.nl> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.7 5/3/96 To: Michael Smith cc: ada@not-enough.bandwidth.org (Ada T Lim), hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MS Word documents (was: Advice sought on PnP configuration) In-reply-to: msmith's message of Thu, 31 Jul 1997 21:37:27 +0930. <199707311207.VAA28144@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Reply-to: marc@bowtie.nl Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 15:50:30 +0200 From: Marc van Kempen Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > To answer Grog's question; there was a discussion of this very issue a > while back here, and the upshot was that the one individual that had > come close to deciphering the Word document format was sat on by > Microsoft's lawyers. There is apparently some documentation somewhere > (ref Terry, IIRC) which might allow you to read Word documents, but at > the cost of your mortal soul. > I remembered saving a reference... http://wwwwbs.cs.tu-berlin.de/~schwartz/pmh/ It has a sort of description of the word 6.0 document format. Marc. > -- > ]] 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 [[ ---------------------------------------------------- Marc van Kempen BowTie Technology Email: marc@bowtie.nl WWW & Databases tel. +31 40 2 43 20 65 fax. +31 40 2 44 21 86 http://www.bowtie.nl ----------------------------------------------------