Subj : scott mcnealy talking out his arse again
To   : Scott Little
From : Dirk Cap
Date : Sat Nov 11 2000 10:39 am

Hi Scott,

Sorry for the late reply.

 SL>  DC>  correct modules, is also "good". Did you know MSWord is a COM
 SL>  DC>  object which is runnable hidden, initialized from some other
 SL>  DC>  application.
 SL> 
 SL> i didn't think about it until i saw excel spreadsheets embedded in a
 SL> word document... i then discovered word documents are compound files,

 Indeed, it is possible to insert some object into a document. A document
 is related to VB. There are lots of objects who can be activated by
 some inserted token. Eventually there are applications who must be
 started "into" the Word application. It can be found inside the MSDN
 viewers.

 SL> different parts of a DOC file are interpreted by different components,
 SL> which is why it's so hard to emulate MS Word - it's not just simple
 SL> text formatting, there are dozens, of programs that read the various
 SL> data streams in a DOC file.

 When you look at a particular file with a DocFile viewer shipped with
 the Visual Studio application I see five items in a folder.
 0table, 1table, iCompObject, WordDocument, iSummaryInformation and
 iDocumentSummaryInformation. When there is an inserted illustration
 there is a ObjectPool object added to the list. It is indeed not just
 formatted text but a whole of environment with an internal tree
 linked to Visual Basic.

 SL> that the program which you're using isn't necessarily the program
 SL> interpreting the data, only displaying it.
 Indeed, I did a test sometimes to create a simple window and initiate
 the explorer into this window using Visual C++. Using document templates
 burned into the C++ system, and the Navigate() function. The code is
 almost completely constructed by the wizard but some objects could be
 and must be inserted. The result was running the browser inside my
 own window. I believe all the windows environment, especilly NT, is
 builded around the object and COM system.

 SL> it's good enough. it's not what you would call the Killer App {tm}
 SL> that Office is.

 Even it is a fact the KDE X-window system, KOffice, Staroffice and
 the Unix (Linux) system is powerfull, for the (professional) home
 user there aren't better softwareobkects.

 Dirk

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