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Article #16Re: WORD FILE FORMAT (WINDOWS)
From: Perry Fect
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 23:14
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 23:14
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Scott McMahan - Softbase Systems (softbase@mercury.interpath.net) wrote:
: Idan Feigenbaum (yfeigenbaum@decisiondata.com) wrote:
: : I need the WORD for windows file format.
: The Word file format is a PROPRIETARY TRADE SECRET OF MICROSOFT! It
: has never been released to the public. You may be able to license it
: for a fee from Microsoft, but you'd probably have to sign a
: non-disclosure agreement. If anyone has reverse-engineered the file
: format, it has never been leaked to the public. If someone did this,
: they'd be asking MS to make an example of them in the courts. None of
: MS's development information sources (Knowledge Base, MSDN CDs, etc)
: documents the file format.
that's such a bullshit policy. microsoft must die.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!callnet.com!perfecto From: perfecto@callnet.com (Perry Fect) Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal.delphi.misc,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.pascal.misc,comp.lang.c++ Subject: Re: WORD FILE FORMAT (WINDOWS) Followup-To: comp.lang.pascal.delphi.misc,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.pascal.misc,comp.lang.c++ Date: 11 Mar 1996 23:14:54 GMT Organization: Futuris.Networks Inc. Message-ID: <4i2c5e$t70@kiwi.futuris.net> References: <4hv2ho$d8t@news.interpath.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 204.249.209.2 X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2]