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>Word is basically an operating system. And .doc files are basically a memory dump.

• someguyiguess 2mo ago
  Dump is a great word for it
• galangalalgol 2mo ago
  That was certainly true once, but now all that state is serialized to xml amd zipped up. You can unzip it and look at it if you don't value your sanity.
  • oblio 2mo ago
    So what you're saying is that the files are basically a memory dump formatted as XML? :-p
    • galangalalgol 2mo ago
      A selective menory dump that when deserialized can ignore fields not present its version, but yeah.
  • reddalo 2mo ago
    That's why I said .doc. The format you're talking about is called .docx