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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: KDE does not recognice KWord docs
From:       Thomas Zander <zander () microweb ! nl>
Date:       2003-09-28 5:47:47
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On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 02:11:28AM +0200, Nicolas Goutte wrote:
> On Sunday 28 September 2003 00:37, Nicolas Goutte wrote:
> > On Saturday 27 September 2003 23:48, David Faure wrote:
> > > On Saturday 27 September 2003 20:25, Nicolas Goutte wrote:
> > > Yes, I think we shouldn't do something that changes our 'magic'
> > > recognition: * other projects/tools/etc. might use the magic we had
> > > previously, this change will break it * are we sure that the new offset
> > > is always going to be 55? What's between position 30 and position 55?
> > > This looks more fragile to me.
> >
> > I do not understand what "fragile" means here. It is the Unix extension.
> > The only problem is that there are three kinds of Unix extensions. (The
> > PKWARE one with id 0x000d, the InfoZIP old one with id 0x5855, the new one
> > with id 0x7855.) KZip seems to have chosen the old one and does not support
> > the other two, not even at read.
> 
> Thinking further, I suppose that what I described is more or less something 
> what you thought of by using the word "fragile".

I think David is afraid that the offset I saw in my files (of 55) might
be different in some cases.
This can happen if more or less bytes are added in the header due to
these versions, or even due to a programmed extension that generates more
or less bytes.

Hope that clears it up.

-- 
Thomas Zander
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