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It's a completely different format. Iirc .doc files are basically implementation defined files and consist of c-structs dumped to disk. .docx is a properly spec
by im3w1l 1y ago
It's a completely different format. Iirc .doc files are basically implementation defined files and consist of c-structs dumped to disk. .docx is a properly specified format of compressed xml.
- int_19h 1y agoIt's not "C structs dumped to disk". It's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COM_Structured_Storage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COM_Structured_Storage, which is basically a filesystem-in-a-file. And it has been documented for a long time, ever since Microsoft was forced to write docs for Office file formats because of antitrust: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/windows_protocols/MS-WINPROTLP/e36c976a-6263-42a8-b119-7a3cc41ddd2a https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/windows_protocol...