* [9fans] stuff @ 2007-01-17 17:25 Steve Simon 2007-01-17 18:35 ` Wes Kussmaul 2007-01-17 20:46 ` ron minnich 0 siblings, 2 replies; 4+ messages in thread From: Steve Simon @ 2007-01-17 17:25 UTC (permalink / raw) To: 9fans Following the principals raised at ipw9 of openness and communication, I have created a file /n/sources/contrib/steve/Blog which contains some collected thoughts on what I have been playing with on plan9, and what I might play with next. I will probably update it... yearly, but maybe not - I tried. I also uploaded a rather feable attempt at a MS PowerPoint cracker: /n/sources/contrib/steve/pptfs.tbz. It generates a syntentic filesystem containing the images and text from each slide. I say feable as it somtimes pulls out internal labels as well as text, and much of its heuristics are guesswork due to the limited documentation on the file format. It is occasionally useful to me, but had I known I would have spent the time on somthing more productive. -Steve ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* Re: [9fans] stuff 2007-01-17 17:25 [9fans] stuff Steve Simon @ 2007-01-17 18:35 ` Wes Kussmaul 2007-01-17 19:07 ` Steve Simon 2007-01-17 20:46 ` ron minnich 1 sibling, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread From: Wes Kussmaul @ 2007-01-17 18:35 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs Steve Simon wrote: > I also uploaded a rather feable attempt at a MS > PowerPoint cracker... much of its heuristics are guesswork > due to the limited documentation on the file format. > Can't you examine the code for Open Office Impress to help with that? OOI does fairly well at opening .ppt files. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* Re: [9fans] stuff 2007-01-17 18:35 ` Wes Kussmaul @ 2007-01-17 19:07 ` Steve Simon 0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread From: Steve Simon @ 2007-01-17 19:07 UTC (permalink / raw) To: 9fans > Can't you examine the code for Open Office Impress to help with that? > OOI does fairly well at opening .ppt files. I did look, (Google codesearch is your friend), but found nothing I could read. I did find some Microsoft documentation on www.wotsit.org, and openoffice have done a fair job of describing the Escher drawing records but there are big gaps. -Steve ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* Re: [9fans] stuff 2007-01-17 17:25 [9fans] stuff Steve Simon 2007-01-17 18:35 ` Wes Kussmaul @ 2007-01-17 20:46 ` ron minnich 1 sibling, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread From: ron minnich @ 2007-01-17 20:46 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs Steve, i think it is great that you are doing this stuff, and logging it. Thanks ron ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
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