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Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2017 19:06:54 +0100
From: Rory O'Farrell <ofarrwrk@iol.ie>
To: dev@openoffice.apache.org
Subject: Re: DOC file not opening on 4.1.4
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On Thu, 10 Aug 2017 10:25:24 -0700
Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> wrote:

> One of the changes for 4.1.4 is supposed to tighten validation of doc 
> files. Unfortunately, I made a mistake in the version that went into 
> RC1, and it gets false positives.
> 
> The problem should be fixed in RC2.


Thank you for the information, Patricia.  If you need a copy of the file for test purposes, let me know

Rory


> 
> On 8/10/2017 4:27 AM, Rory O'Farrell wrote:
> > Forum volunteer John_Ha has sent me a DOC file that will open with 4.1.3 (and AbiWord) but gives a "Read-Error: This is not a WinWord 97 file" error on 4.1.4 RC1.  A quick inspection suggests that the first 50 or so bytes of the file are as they should be for a "good" DOC file.
> > 
> > As this ML will strip attachments I won't attach it; I have his permission to make it available to anyone interested.  If you would like to examine it, please email me for a copy.
> > 
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