Bob Long wrote:
RA Brown wrote,
[..]
DOC and RTF ar both MS owned closed formats. OOo and LibO have what
limited conversion they have from reverse engineering files. It is not
and can not 100% compatible. Someone at MS leaked the format for DOC but
anyone making a 100% compatible program would be sued. MS forces
incompatibility to create vendor lock-in. Do a web search for ODF vs DOC
and read up on some of the background for ODF.
Andy
I'm no fan of DOC format, but the specifications are published:
http://www.microsoft.com/interop/docs/officebinaryformats.mspx
If those specifications are understandable and correct, then I'd guess
that 100% compatibility should be possible.
_If_ is the key word here. Also they are owned by MS so anyone that did
produce a 100% compatible program would stand the chance of being sued.
Also why do you thing MS dropped support for some older formats with
SP3 to Word XP?
Andy
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