Subject: LAOLA library
From: [email-masked] (Martin Schwartz)
Date: 10 Mar 1997 14:06:41 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl.announce,comp.lang.perl.modules

Hello,

I just finished a new distribution of LAOLA. This is a distribution of 
source codes and information about the binary format of OLE documents. 
Can be found at:

   http://wwwwbs.cs.tu-berlin.de/~schwartz/pmh/laola.html  or at
   http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~schwartz/pmh/laola.html

There you will find especially:

Hacking guide
   Explanation of the binary format of OLE documents.
   
laola.pl
   A perl library, that gives access to OLE documents like Word and Excel 
   without Microsoft code. You can read documents, read and modify existing 
   streams and read and modify garbage. Supports a litte bit property sets.
   A quick reference file for this library is now available. The code should 
   be rather system independent. However, at MS DOS and some Unix systems 
   it worked well. 

Demonstration programs:

   lclean (ALPHA version!)
      A program able to detect, save and clean the trash sections in OLE 
      documents. Can store and extract some file in the garbage sections. 
      This file will not be noticed by the documents application.

   ldat
      Prints out the standard properties of an OLE document. Shows how to 
      read some printer info out of Word and Excel documents. 

   lhalw
      Draws the text section out of a Word 6+ file.

   lls
      Prints the file structure of OLE documents. Streams can be saved
      into files.

Comments welcome,

Martin

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