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Re: Word format

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From: William M. Bumgarner
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 1989 05:15
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> Where can I get info on the format of MSoft Word files?

You are going to have a very difficult time doing so-- You can try MicroSoft,
but it is doubtful that that will help.  Give Aldus and Ashton-Tate a call--
both have worked with the Word format (PageMaker and FullWrite deal with
it), and they may have something they can send.

An example of the lock-up on formats that Microsoft has: For the publishers of
the, as yet unreleased, _Wingz_ spreadsheet package to be able to import
Excel 'sheets, they hired a hacker/guru to dissasemble Microsoft's code to
figure out the format of the Excel documents.  They were able to do it, but
Microsoft never lifted a finger to help in any way...

b.bum
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From: wb1j+@andrew.cmu.edu (William M. Bumgarner)
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Subject: Re: Word format
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Date: 23 Jan 89 05:15:55 GMT
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