[comp.sys.mac] Word Processor Document Conversion

golds@rlgvax.UUCP (Rich Goldschmidt) (05/27/88)

There are many word processors which can take a file produced with Word or 
WordPerfect, and convert it to the format the current package uses.  
This implies that the Word or WordPerfect format is known and available.  
Is this information public, or is it licensed from Micorsoft or WordPerfect?  
If it is public, does anyone out there have it, or know how to find it?  
I would like to build a converter for documents in these formats.

I know that the WordStar 2000 format has been published, for example,
in  "File Formats for Popular PC Software - A programmer's Reference"
by Jeff Walden, Wiley IBM PC Series, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., NY.

Thanks...

Rich Goldschmidt
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