Subject: Re: Word Exporter Project
From: sam th (sam@bur-jud-118-039.rh.uchicago.edu)
Date: Thu Mar 02 2000 - 18:58:59 CST
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On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Justin Bradford wrote:
> > The Word 97-2000 format, which is the prevalent binary format, is none of
> > the above. I have heard rumors of a Word 97 file format spec available,
> > but have never been able to find one.
>
> http://busboy.sped.ukans.edu/~justin/word/wword8.html
>
> 550Kb of documentation on the glorious Word binary format. I would
> estimate that about 300-400Kb of it is actually right, too.
>
<sam eats hat>
Well, in the face of this new evidence, I will work on a binary exporter.
This makes me happy anyway. Now I won't have to think about what MS did
to the nice standards that are supposedly represented by that pile of
muck they call a file format.
Justin - I'm happy to just start by reading the documents, but if you want
to point me to somthing specific that needs to be done, I would be most
appreciative.
Thanks
sam th
sytobinh@uchicago.edu
And Paul - I didn't really think the format was open in a real sense, just
that it didn't require reverse engineering to understand. And I never
really wanted to do that anyway.
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