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

[Paul Sture]

In article <00A970E9.439FD717 at SendSpamHere.ORG>,
 VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:

> 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.

Yes, somewhere in there (though I seem to have lost my bookmark to it). 
There are flavours of "default write" commands which allow you to switch 
the compression off for development purposes.

The documentation is there for Pages and Keynote, but not Numbers.

-- 
Paul Sture