"kevin lyda" <kevin+dated+1118188098.f32768 at ie.suberic.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 05:08:06PM +0100, Braun Brelin wrote:
> > Assuming that you're talking about the .doc proprietary format, I
got this
> > information by reading some stuff by Caolan McNamara on how he went
about
> > writing the conversion software. He mentioned (as I recall), how
they had
> > encrypted certain parts of the file and dumped their runtime DS's.
> >
> > The article is here:
> > http://www.skynet.ie/~caolan/Packages/wvDecrypt.html>> that describes the encryption feature of word. but it does clear one
> thing up - .doc files (at least some of them) are a collection of ole2
> streams.
>> kevin
I.e. the MS POIFS format, sort-of ole streams, which does not imply
encryption:
http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/poifs/fileformat.html
Ciaran
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