Mac DOCs

[Tomas Frydrych]

Hi Dom,

> MAC Word format is not the same as WinWord. wv doesn't handle Mac Word DOCs 
> (will it ever?) The main problem here is that:

I think MacWord format is exactly the same as WinWord, but 
everything numerical in it gets saved in big-endian fashion. If you 
save a MacWord document onto a PC formated floppy it can be 
opened by WinWord no problem (even if  you just email it from the 
floppy). On the other hand, if you save MacWord on a Mac 
formated disk, Windows version of Word cannot open it. 
Endianness is the only obvious explanation for this behaviour.

Tomas