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Article #31Re: WORD FILE FORMAT (WINDOWS)
From: Hans Ebenhoch
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 02:29
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 02:29
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Brad Aisa wrote: > > The new file format was neither a "conspiracy", nor was it particularly > "faster or smaller". Between v2 and v6, MS developed the OLE structured > storage file format, and the OLE2 specs (to allow embedded documents). This > required the new file format to become OLE DocFile compatible. So they had > to completely switch file formats. > Inside the Winword6 binary stream are only little changes made as to introduce watermarks etc. The main difference is, that the WinWord6 stream is now included inside a OLE2 compound document. I've written a filter for Winword 1.x and 2.0 which extracts the plain text out of these document formats. Now I am seeking for a filter/unit/program, which extracts the Winword6 binary stream out of the OLE2 compund document file, preferrable in BPW 7.0 or TPW1.x. Anybody out there who can help me? All help greatly appreciated, -- Hans Ebenhoch, Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG, GP 5 NM IP D-81730 Muenchen, Otto-Hahn-Ring 6; Building: Mch-P 28-583 E-Mail:hans.ebenhoch@mch.sni.de, Tel:++49.89.636-43033,Fax: -45962 X.400 : c:de, a:dbp,p:scn,o:sni,o1:mch1, o2:s41, g:Hans,s:Ebenhoch
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