From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Improving programs like doc2txt
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:35:49 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <087507896c72ac6a88b4951691e421f7@coraid.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C6AB0B5E-2CD2-4102-B90B-C6185F433773@mac.com>
as tempting as the thought is,
c structures != memory layout.
- erik
> Yes, however try reading the C struct for FIB. It's confusing. What
> is FC? I expected a pure struct definition, like in Appendix A of the
> PowerPoint specification.
>
> On Feb 20, 2008, at 9:55 AM, maht wrote:
>
> >
> >> Never mind. Don't try to convert a Microsoft specification to C!
> > That's odd because the binary formats are basically C structs in an
> > FAT32 file system with some headers.
> >
> >
> > http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/02/19.html
> >
> >
> > Next time announce it when you've got it going :)
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-20 16:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-17 3:14 Pietro Gagliardi
2008-02-17 3:20 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2008-02-17 3:30 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-02-20 14:55 ` maht
2008-02-20 14:59 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-02-20 16:35 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
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