From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Mar 21 08:25:29 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA24332 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 21 Mar 1997 08:25:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.50]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id IAA24314 for ; Fri, 21 Mar 1997 08:25:14 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id JAA15782; Fri, 21 Mar 1997 09:12:19 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199703211612.JAA15782@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: MSWord docs... To: peter@grendel.IAEhv.nl (Peter Korsten) Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 09:12:19 -0700 (MST) Cc: spaz@u.washington.edu, jkh@time.cdrom.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19970321023634.25431@grendel.IAEhv.nl> from "Peter Korsten" at Mar 21, 97 02:36:34 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] 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 > I don't know whether the link has been removed. The guy does state > that he figured out a file format himself, which happens to look > remarkably similar to the MS OLE 2.0 file format in general and > the Word format in particular. (But only the raw text can be > extracted, forget about things as tables and formatting.) The "File Formats Handbook" by _Born_ makes a similar claim. > I do know that the MS Word format was removed, by request of MS, from > the "Wotsit File Format Collection" (http://www.wotsit.demon.co.uk). I saw this too... > 3. The docs suppose that you use the OLE 2.0 API to read the word > files. We don't have docs on that, but a lot can be learnt from > the documentation of the German guy. Moreover, it wouldn't be > a bad idea to be able to read Access and Excel files as well, > if there were an OLE 2.0 API in FreeBSD. This is the "OLESS" stuff, right? Do you have a URL for this doc? Regards, Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.