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

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <iYUD8CIfRYnX at eisner.encompasserve.org>,
	koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) writes:
> In article <00bbcdf4$0$23699$c3e8da3 at news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
>> Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> 
>>> And MS supply free readers for doc/xls/ppt as well.
>> 
>> Do they still do that ?
>> 
>> They came out with some funky new word format (pretends to be XML, but
>> it is unreadable binary junk). To read one such document, I had to
>> download some converter from Microsoft which would then create a new
>> file which could be read.
> 
>    They only provided a converter to use their own products to read
>    those formats.
> 
>    OBTW, a .docx file is actually a zip with a .doc file and some other
>    junk inside.  So you don't really need a converter if you can read
>    a .doc file.

I don't know what you are looking at, but there is no .doc file.
Current Office products are all XML.

bill
 

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