[Info-vax] OT: Rob Short: Operating System Evolution

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In article <paul.nospam-19AC0C.21055604012010 at pbook.sture.ch>, Paul Sture <paul.nospam at sture.ch> writes:
>In article <00A970AB.204B392A at SendSpamHere.ORG>,
> VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
>
>> Who's bitching?  JF remarked about .DOCX.  Arne said it was ZIPped XML.
>> That presented bit of confusion.  Is this .DOCX a ZIPped .DOC with XML
>> or a complete new format wherein .DOCX is ZIPped XML.  Regardless, it's
>> M$ and I avoid it.
>
>FWIW OpenOffice and Apple's iWork both store files in gzip formmat.
>
>I don't know where it's documented for OpenOffice, but the iWork stuff 
>is documented in the Xcode help files.

iWork->Pages (I've not looked at other iWork components but I'd expect that
they are similar) save projects as a package which contains some folders as
well as the index.xml.gz file.

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