Re: reminder -- we need exporters *AND* importers


Subject: Re: reminder -- we need exporters *AND* importers
From: Hubert Figuiere (hfiguiere@teaser.fr)
Date: Wed Feb 02 2000 - 09:51:36 CST


According to Caolan McNamara <cmc@stardivision.de>:

> > Wishes for Import/export would be:
>
> > -Word 5 Mac (Caolan, how can we get your doc somewhere)
>
> Ah, a catch. Well basically I have moved to germany and my computer
> will be shipped over in about 3 weeks. And obviously everything is on
> the PC :-)

OK. So I'll wait. I hope to finish my MS-Write import (and export) then...

> > -Star Office (I have had a chance to get the doc or see if it is
> available.
> > Anyone ?)
>
> Ho de ho, i'd say you are out of luck there. Not because
> staroffice/sun will not release the specs, but because their existing
> ones are horrifically out of date, and noone has written any new ones
> yet. I don't personally know if there is any intention to write an up
> to date spec in the near future.

argh.....
With the plan to release source code as SCL would it be possible to get the
description from the source code, non ?
From what I could guess, it looks like an OLE Streamed file like Word...

Hub



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