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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 :)


      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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