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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: MS Office filters & Suns
From:       "Shaheed Haque" <shaheedhaque () hotmail ! com>
Date:       2000-06-13 20:51:00
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Hi Harri!

> > 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 ?

No you are right: I was just not very clear :-(. My statement is true given 
that the code takes byteswapping into account.



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