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

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <6nZhECo$i+zJ at eisner.encompasserve.org>,
	koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) writes:
> In article <7qe7k1F3ukpruU3 at mid.individual.net>, billg999 at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) writes:
>> 
>> The new format is .docx, which is xml.  I am always amazed at how
>> many people who always bitched about MS proprietary formats bitch
>> just as lound about their use of XML.
> 
>    No.  .docx is zip.  It contains some XML files and a .doc file, which
>    is also not XML.
 
Try again.  I just created a .docx file from Word, moved it to Unix
and unzipped it.

server2# ls -lR
total 22
-rwxr--r--  1 bill  staff  12303 Jan  6 08:03 IG1test.docx
-rw-r--r--  1 bill  staff   1312 Jan  1  1980 [Content_Types].xml
drwxr-xr-x  2 bill  staff    512 Jan  6 08:05 _rels
drwxr-xr-x  2 bill  staff    512 Jan  6 08:05 docProps
drwxr-xr-x  4 bill  staff    512 Jan  6 08:05 word

./_rels:
total 0

./docProps:
total 4
-rw-r--r--  1 bill  staff  735 Jan  1  1980 app.xml
-rw-r--r--  1 bill  staff  785 Jan  1  1980 core.xml

./word:
total 48
drwxr-xr-x  2 bill  staff    512 Jan  6 08:05 _rels
-rw-r--r--  1 bill  staff  21200 Jan  1  1980 document.xml
-rw-r--r--  1 bill  staff   1564 Jan  1  1980 fontTable.xml
-rw-r--r--  1 bill  staff   1610 Jan  1  1980 settings.xml
-rw-r--r--  1 bill  staff  15566 Jan  1  1980 styles.xml
drwxr-xr-x  2 bill  staff    512 Jan  6 08:05 theme
-rw-r--r--  1 bill  staff    260 Jan  1  1980 webSettings.xml

./word/_rels:
total 2
-rw-r--r--  1 bill  staff  817 Jan  1  1980 document.xml.rels

./word/theme:
total 8
-rw-r--r--  1 bill  staff  6992 Jan  1  1980 theme1.xml

Nothing in there with a ".doc" extension. And the only files without
".xml" for an extension are ".rels" and if you actually look at them,
they are also XML files.

bill

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