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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: MS Office filters & Suns
From:       Elisabetta Intini <enintini () mclink ! it>
Date:       2000-06-13 13:18:13
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> From: Thomas <zander@xs4all.nl>
> Subject: Re: MS Office filters & Suns
> To: koffice@max.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de
> Date:   Mon, 12 Jun 2000 23:02:38 +0200 (CEST)
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>
> The documents are called things like: Word for windows 6.x and 
> Word for
> Macintosh x.x
> 
> So they are probably (not shure) not the same.
> 
> > 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.

As far as I can remember the PowerPC-CPU has an option (mode) to deal with little-endian data. 

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