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The code to open the files is not portable - but there is nothing in any file format that restricts them to use on a specific platform. You may find that a file format that is currently being used is not optimum for a different platform - but it will still work.
Its the *code* that would need to get ported. All file formats are platform agnositc, as long as you have code that can read them. The point of portability is that the code used to read in all these files (wmb,wrs,mdl,etc) would have to be re-written to be able to run on other platforms. This is what would take time. Granted with proper coding, they could be written so they would work equally well on any platform, albeit at a small perfomance penalty. Although this would be negated mainly by the time it takes to actually fetch the data from disk.
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