Re: Abiword documentation

Could be randomness. Could be a bug in the OLE library wvSummary uses
(libgsf). Could be valid-ish data or a bug in the contents'
generators. Without sample docs and knowing what you're analyzing, I
can't say for certain if there's any value in it.

Best,
Dom

On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 4:09 PM, Simson Garfinkel <slgarfin@nps.edu> wrote:
> Dom,
>
> Thank you for the info.
>
> As part of our research here we have downloaded approx 10K MSOLE files from
> the Internet. We have found files for which wvSummary reports 0, 1, 2, 3 and
> more code pages. Some of the code pages are quite odd (negative, for
> example). Is this just the randomness of the world? Do you think that there
> is likely to be any value in analyzing these individual metadata streams?
>
> Regards,
>
> Simson
>
>
>
> On Dec 9, 2008, at 11:58 AM, Dominic Lachowicz wrote:
>
>> I wouldn't worry about it as much as I might worry about the Death of
>> Privacy in the 21st century :)
>>
>> Seriously, though. MsWord OLE docs have 2 metadata streams, called
>> "\05SummaryInformation" and "\05DocumentSummaryInformation". Both of
>> them happen to have a codepage, so the code prints the codepage twice.
>>
>> http://www.abisource.com/viewvc/wv/trunk/wvSummary.c?view=markup
>> around line 212.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Dom
>
>

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