On Fri, 2016-10-28 at 22:43 +0200, Christoph Biedl wrote: > Some research reveals this is actually Word for Mac versions 4 or 5.
I see, sorry for the mis-diagnosis, I was mislead by this site: http://mark0.net/onlinetrid.aspx > The libreoffice suite can open this file, although the rendering looks > a bit weird. I however failed to derive the file format from the > code in sw/source/filter/ww8/ww8scan.cxx. The WW8Fib::GetFIBVersion function looks interesting and matches the first two bytes of the file. https://sources.debian.net/src/libreoffice/1:5.2.3~rc1-4/sw/source/filter/ww8/ww8scan.cxx/#L5414 Interestingly, the file referenced by that function *is* detected by `file` as a 'Microsoft Office Document': http://cmsdoc.cern.ch/documents/docformat/CMS_CERN_LetterHead.word The WW8Fib::WW8Fib function looks to be the place where the header is read out of the file: https://sources.debian.net/src/libreoffice/1:5.2.3~rc1-4/sw/source/filter/ww8/ww8scan.cxx/#L5459 -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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