Subject: RE: Big wv/LibOLE2 patch
From: James Montgomerie (jamie@montgomerie.net)
Date: Fri Jun 02 2000 - 04:17:03 CDT
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin Sevior [mailto:msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au]
> Sent: 02 June 2000 04:11
> To: James Montgomerie
> Cc: Abiword-Dev
> Subject: RE: Big wv/LibOLE2 patch
>
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> On Fri, 2 Jun 2000, James Montgomerie wrote:
> >
> > Attached are two files (again), both containing something this time,
> > hopefully :-)
> >
> > I'm pretty happy it's stable, and would even stick my neck out and say I
> > wouldn't mind if it was committed. Watch out for it not working on
> > opposite-endian machines (an easy fix if it doesn't), and GLIB
> not building
> > on non-Linux machines (which, thanks to Dom's readme, should
> also be an easy
> > fix for people on those platforms to do - just some #defines, if memory
> > serves).
>
> I have to agree. I started importing a killer word document with tons of
> tables, lines, OLE stuff at about 11:20. I went to give a lecture at 12:00
> and it was still going. I came back from the lecture and the import has
> completed. It worked! Of course all the table OLE stuff has gone but
> anywhere there was text to be found, wv had managed to suck it out of the
> file. Also on another file that crashed abi before, now I get a "bogus
> document" warning and no crash.
As Justin says, it certainly shouldn't be taking that long. I don't think
there's a bugzilla bug about the 'apparently infinitely looping' documents -
perhaps you could make one and post this document somewhere web-accessible?
Good to know it's not crashing now though.
Jamie.
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