Re: libole2 Patch: fix 1876,7178

From: Jody Goldberg <jody_at_gnome.org>
Date: Sat Sep 04 2004 - 05:52:41 CEST

On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 11:46:59PM +0200, Robert Wilhelm wrote:
> I have looked again into the
> "Some MS Word documents without password are treated as
> password-protected" bug, this time with cocao created doc files.
>
>
> This files seem to have a bogus SBAT, but we can ignore this as
> all streams seem to be >=4k and therefore use normal BAT.
>
> See attached patch for a possible workaround.
>
>
> Now the details, if you really want to know them :)
>
> See http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/poifs/fileformat.html
> as a reference.
>
> Let?s have a look at attachment 2194 from bug #7178:

Blah. libole is dead libgsf does a much better job of handling
things. I hate to see good development resources thrown at such a
pointless codebase. Is gsf not going in for 2.2 ?
Received on Sat Sep 4 08:17:24 2004

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