Re: bug 651 fix


Subject: Re: bug 651 fix
From: sam th (sam@bur-jud-118-039.rh.uchicago.edu)
Date: Tue Mar 28 2000 - 14:44:31 CST


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On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, Matt Kraai wrote:

> Howdy,
>
> Abiword asserts and then coredumps when it is asked to open empty text
> or UTF8 files. It does this because the documents that it constructs
> do not contain any blocks. I assume that this is also the cause of bug
> 773, which concerns abw documents that have no <p> or <section> tags.
> I assume that this is a document invariant that isn't being preserved
> by the importers.

I'm pretty sure that the lack of a block is not what is causing 773. For
example, a 1 byte .txt file does not crash AbiWord, and a 0 byte .abw does
not crash abiword. In fact, the problem reported in 773 requires a
specific combination of missing tags.

Thanks for fixing 651 though.
           
                                     sam th
                                     sytobinh@uchicago.edu
                                http://bur-jud-118-039.rh.uchicago.edu
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