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by brianwawok 3397 days ago
Have you seen the spec for .doc and .xls ?
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maxxxxx 3396 days ago
I don't even want to know :)
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grkvlt 3396 days ago
Oh, you really do! The format for COM object based documents like XLS and DOC is actually a FAT filesystem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compound_File_Binary_Format
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