RE: [seul-edu] Re: [school-discuss] Edu-apps under wine

["Kirill Bolschakow" <raven@softjoys.ru>]

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> Does anyone know what format World Book and Britannica store 
> their files
> in?  If it's something public, we could perhaps write readers 
> for them.  We
> could even donate them back to the respective publishers for 
> inclusion on
> future CDs.  I doubt that would work with Encarta, since it's from
> Microsoft, though.
> 
> --
> Doug Loss                 All I want is a warm bed
> Data Network Coordinator  and a kind word and
> Bloomsburg University     unlimited power.
> dloss@bloomu.edu                Ashleigh Brilliant

If Encarta stores its files in Microsoft OLE 2 Compound Document
Format, then it seems that at least an attempt could be done
regarding creating the reader for it. I looked it up at SourceForge,
and found these projects:
http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/
http://chicago.sourceforge.net/


HTH,
Kirill