[Info-vax] the document describing the system service transfer vector

[David Jones]

On Monday, September 19, 2022 at 7:56:35 PM UTC-4, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 9/19/2022 6:55 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote: 
> > Don't need Windows to read a docx file.  It really has nothing to do 
> > with Windows.  I read them on Linux and MacOS all the time.
> It just requires something that reads OOXML. 
> 
> MS Office (Windows) and the various LibreOffice/OpenOffice variants 
> (Windows, Linux, macOS, *BSD) can read and write. 
> 
> But I don't think anything on VMS can read them. 
> 

I read .xlsx files on VMS, mapping cell ranges on sheets to SQLite virtual
tables. It's best if you don't get too fancy with text attributes. The ECMA
specification is really abstruse.