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- 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.
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- Scott McMahan - Softbase Systems (softbase@mercury.interpath.net) wrote:
- : Idan Feigenbaum (yfeigenbaum@decisiondata.com) wrote:
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- : : 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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