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From: briand@tekig4.TEK.COM (Brian Diehm)
Newsgroups: comp.text.desktop
Subject: Re: DCA file format; MS-Word file format
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Date: 25 Apr 88 17:57:53 GMT
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>If we can't transport it via DCA, then we'll need a description of MS-Word III
>file format.

MicroSoft guards the file format of Word like the United States guards gold at
Ft. Knox.  Except MicroSoft is more paranoid.  DCA is a published standard.

	[[ Actually, qualified vendors CAN license the file format. Contact
	   Microsoft for details. The key word there is qualified, though. 
	   And it doesn't include the access algorithms, just the format,
	   so accessing stuff in "fast save" format can have performance
	   problems. And better be ready to sign non-disclosures and all
	   sorts of other neat stuff. But it can be done -- chuq ]

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Tektronix, Inc.
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