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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: MS Office filters & Suns
From:       "Byron C. Servies" <bservies () pacang ! com>
Date:       2000-06-12 20:44:39
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On 6/12/00 at 12:58 PM, bastian@kde.org (Waldo Bastian) wrote:

> On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Harri Porten wrote:
> > Werner Trobin wrote:
> > > OLE 2 documents are built like a directory structure which
> > > holds streams (=files). KLaola (the class which encodes
> > > the document) knows nothing about the contents of the
> > > streams. In case of WinWord, for example, the streams
> > > contain enormous amounts of short, int,... numbers,
> > > text, and so on.
> >
> > Is this MS data always of the same Endianess ?
> 
> I think so because MS software only runs on computers with the same Endianess 
> if I remember correctly from reading the Wine kernel cousin :-)

FYI,

MS Office for Macintosh is big-endian.  I believe it uses OLE2; there is an OLE
extension installed with most MS software on macs.  I have no idea if the two
systems interoperate at the document level and cope with endianess or if a
translation step is required first.

Byron

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