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

[Allen, Daniel P.]

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From: info-vax-bounces at rbnsn.com [mailto:info-vax-bounces at rbnsn.com] On Behalf Of Bob Koehler
Sent: Thursday, January 07, 2010 11:19 AM
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Subject: Re: [Info-vax] OT: Rob Short: Operating System Evolution

In article <7qk1koF8ebU2 at mid.individual.net>, billg999 at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) writes:
>
>>    You want a docx made by Word with a .doc file inside, too?
>
> I don't.  [...]  I would
> like to see youre .docx fiel that contains a .doc inside.

   I guess your not sure.  But at about this time I think it's just time
   for the kill file.

You boys really need to get along.

Looking at the MS site it seems that a "native" .docx file (zip archive) does not contain an embedded .doc file. If the document is created from scratch with Word 2003 the document body with formatting, header and footer info, etc. are all stored in the archive as a collection of pure XML files.

If you use Word 2003 to open an existing .doc file and save it as .docx  the archive will contain the same files as above as well as a copy of the original .doc file.

Dan