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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 9/19/2022 9:07 PM, David Jones wrote:
> 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.

Good point.

I was really thinking about word processors.

But of course the XML can be read and parsed.

If one like stuff that starts with J then POI
can do it.

An SQLite virtual table sounds pretty cool
though!

Is it available?

Arne