Subject: Re: messages opening Word file
From: Hubert Figuiere (hfiguiere@teaser.fr)
Date: Wed Mar 22 2000 - 08:11:29 CST
According to Caolan McNamara <cmc@stardivision.de>:
> > What is it ?
>
> That would be a problem with the escher parser. The graphics in word
> are stored in this format, the parser has found unimplemented fields
> and attempted to skip them, either
>
> a) all is well and the fields were skipped ok, the doc loads and no
> crashes ?
Yes it does.
> b) the previous recognized field was not handled correctly leaving the
> parser out of step with the datafile and all hell breaks loose.
> c) the "field eater" has gotten it wrong and ate too much, again
> leaving everything in a useless state
>
> >From memory those field identifiers all fit the profile of a valid
> entry i.e. they are f???. If this is a crashes I imagine that the
> problem is likely to be that one record contained another but the
> parser was too simplistic to figure it out. Send me on the document
> and I will look into it.
I'll send it to you privately.
Hub
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