On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Jaco Swart wrote:

> Somewhere, I heard that sxw-files (OpenOffice equevalent of Word's
> doc-files) contains standard xml files. To put this to the test, I tried
> a little experiment, which you can try out if you have OpenOffice installed.
[...]

Yes, neat. However, this file format was already introduced by
StarOffice in version 6. So, if I am not mistaken, the credit for the
introduction of this file format goes to Sun / StarOffice.

Another interesting thing about StarOffice 5.2 documents: why does
file say

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> file Fitness.sdw
Fitness.sdw: Microsoft Office Document

Well, because that's the closest guess that can be taken from the
formats defined in /usr/share/misc/magic , and my version does not
have any definitions for StarOffice - what a shame! SuSE were shipping
the "file" in a distro which also contained StarOffice, but it does
not recognize that format :-)

Kind regards,

Helmut.

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