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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: MsWord filter status...
From:       "Shaheed Haque" <shaheedhaque () hotmail ! com>
Date:       2000-07-20 20:40:59
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Not much so far. But, we just got our Solaris machine at work, if I get time 
(:-()...I'm watching the Solaris compile problems reported in the other 
lists.

Sorry not to have more positive news.

>From: Richard Bos <rbos@lucent.com>
>To: Shaheed Haque <shaheedhaque@hotmail.com>
>CC: Werner@lucent.com, Trobin@lucent.com
>Subject: Re: MsWord filter status...
>Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 00:36:01 +0200
>
>Shaheed,
>
>what about reading in word docs on solaris,
>could you make any progress in that area?
>
>--
>Richard
>
>Shaheed Haque wrote:
> >
> > Here is the MsWord filter status...
> >
> > 1. The only situation I'm aware of when it core dumps is when reading 
>MsWord
> > 2000 files. I had a bug report about that but mail to the reporter just 
>gets
> > bounced.
> >
> > 2. I have multi-language support coded, but cannot test it since some
> > problem on my system makes all non-latin1 characters show up as "?" in 
>kword
> > :-(. Since it does not destablise stuff, I'll probably check it in, 
>unless
> > it is suggested otherwise.
> >
> > 3. My biggest doubt is over table support. Thomas did a great job 
>getting in
> > the floating table support, but it seems fragile. I tried to get it 
>debugged
> > in the last few days, but have spent three days trying to get a clean 
>build
> > of kdelibs/kdebase :-(. I regard this as rather important, so I propose 
>to
> > carry on working on it. If I get it working I'll post a note, and see 
>how
> > people feel about a commit.
> >
> > Comments?
> >
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