Re: notepad vs write

[Sean Young]

Dmitry Timoshkov  wrote:
> "Francois Gouget"  wrote:
> > The problem is that write will handle RTF and Word documents correctly,
> > while notepad is just a text editor and will only display garbage...
> >
> > (yes, wordpad will probably have problems with complex word documents,
> > but it should work with simple ones)
>
> I believe that Write is able to handle only old Word 5.x/6.x format files
> (and of course RTFs). RTFs should not produce too much trouble (just feed
> them to a richedit control). Regarding Word 5.x format here is a snipped
> from my very old DOS code which handled those files (*.doc,*.wri) well
> (it completely ignores formatting though):

I've written a .wri to RTF converter, which is available here:

http://www.msxnet.org/word2rtf/write.c

It should be almost complete. The output is almost the same as the microsoft
converter (including bugs, if desired).

Now I have enough information to write write32.cnv, but is there any
need for this?

Sean

notepad vs write

[Andriy Palamarchuk]

--- Sean Young  wrote:
> I've written a .wri to RTF converter, which is
> available here:
>
> http://www.msxnet.org/word2rtf/write.c
>
> It should be almost complete. The output is almost
> the same as the microsoft
> converter (including bugs, if desired).

Could you submit a bug report in Bugzilla for this or
attach to the existing one, so your information won't
be lost.
Can you relicense it under LGPL?
I personally do not see big problem in notepad/wordpad
being under GPL If you can't/don't want to change
license. It is just convenient to have everything
under the same license.

Regards,
Andriy

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notepad vs write

[Sean Young]

On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 09:56:41AM -0700, Andriy Palamarchuk wrote:
> --- Sean Young  wrote:
> > I've written a .wri to RTF converter, which is
> > available here:
> >
> > http://www.msxnet.org/word2rtf/write.c
> >
> > It should be almost complete. The output is almost
> > the same as the microsoft
> > converter (including bugs, if desired).
>
> Could you submit a bug report in Bugzilla for this or
> attach to the existing one, so your information won't
> be lost.

Done.
> Can you relicense it under LGPL?
> I personally do not see big problem in notepad/wordpad
> being under GPL If you can't/don't want to change
> license. It is just convenient to have everything
> under the same license.

Of course. I'll do that (in other words, LGPL is fine).

Sean