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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: MS Office filters & Suns
From:       Harri Porten <porten () tu-harburg ! de>
Date:       2000-06-13 20:06:36
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Shaheed Haque wrote:
> 
> So, the bottom line is that the Word filter should work equally well on a
> given Word document irrespective of the platform the document is being read
> on and (alomst) irrespective of the platform the document was written on.

Not sure if I understood you correctly. Did you say that the documents
can be read on every platform without taking the Endianess into
consideration ? I don't think so. When reading an integer from a struct
for example you'll have to swap bytes if you are running on a Big Endian
machine. Am I wrong ?

Harri.

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