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@iiii totally understood, but like idk why I never investigated MS office files .. I just took them at face value binary files nothing more lol 😂
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@QuanticoCEO the old doc format was not like that, btw. It was a true binary format.
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@iiii good to know, that’s what’s behind the MSoffice files, it’s all compressed xml
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@QuanticoCEO yeah, and I think it's quite a clever design actually
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@iiii ahh that would make sense and might explain my preconceived notions thinking it was just a plain old binary
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@iiii Yeah, the old format is much older than compression tools like deflate so it implements its own methods for efficiently encoding text to binary data.
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@iiii Also common to remove lost passwords from that excel you only need to update once every 5 years.
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@Grumm eh?
I was today years old when I realized I could unzip with 7zip a excel, word, ppt files. Which then lead me down a rabbit hole of finding other OLE type files.. altium schematic files, brd files etc
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