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- From: scott@unixland.natick.ma.us (Scott Evernden)
- Subject: Re: PowerPoint's Big Secret
- Message-ID: <1992Dec12.181442.9882@unixland.natick.ma.us>
- Keywords: PowerPoint
- Organization: Unixland Public Access Unix & Think_Tank BBS
- References: <1674@applix.com>
- Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 18:14:42 GMT
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- In article <1674@applix.com> jimr@applix.com (Jim Rouleau [ext 256]) writes:
- >
- > To my surprise, however, the Customer Support person and
- >then the liaison person said that the PowerPoint format is
- >"secret" and that there was no way I was going to get it!
- >
- > I guess Microsoft is back in the business of only wanting
- >to talk to other Microsoft apps and of keeping the industry
- >'in the dark' ages.
-
- Same deal for the file format for WINHELP .hlp files (the binary
- format, not the source .rtf format). Obviously, Microsoft doesn't
- want _anybody_ developing compatible apps in the domains of HELP or
- Multimedia Viewers...
-
- -scott
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