Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 11:32:49 GMT From: Bob Bishop <rb@gid.co.uk> To: John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Subject: Re: MIME applications for FreeBSD Message-ID: <l03020903af28aac879f3@[194.32.164.2]> In-Reply-To: <199702130839.TAA00435@freebsd1.cimlogic.com.au> References: <199702121715.KAA00715@phaeton.artisoft.com> from Terry Lambert at "Feb 12, 97 10:15:47 am"
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At 8:38 am -0000 13/2/97, John Birrell wrote: >[...] >We are prevented from reverse engineering by the licence for msword >(I guess, since other MS products have that clause). MS is unlikely >to publicly document Word file format. [etc] They certainly don't seem to. Maybe reverse engineering is unnecessary: WordPad groks Word 6 format, and the source is in among the samples on the MSVC4.2 CD. Also 3rd-party converters between Word6 and <what you like> are available (and referenced in MS developer materials). Maybe the developers had to pay a fat licence fee. -- Bob Bishop (0118) 977 4017 international code +44 118 rb@gid.co.uk fax (0118) 989 4254 between 0800 and 1800 UK
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