problem opening text files with long lines

[Jeremy C. Reed]

I noticed with NetBSD package abiword-personal-0.99.3 that it may have
problems opening text files with long lines.

I also noticed same problem with Debian packages: abiword-common
0.99.3+cvs.200 and abiword-gtk 0.99.3+cvs.200. (This Debian abiword says
"version 0.99.4".)

It reports:

 AbiWord cannot open J.txt. It appears to be a bogus or invalid document.

This is how I tested:

$ jot -s " " -r 10000 > J.txt # Or use: seq -s " " 1 10000 > J.txt
$ wc J.txt
       1   10000   29191 J.txt
$ abiword J.txt

I first noticed it with this file:

http://www.pugetsoundtechnology.com/about/press/2002/workshop-20020422-for-herald-fyi.txt

$ wc workshop-20020422-for-herald-fyi.txt
       1     103     699 workshop-20020422-for-herald-fyi.txt


I searched bugzilla, but didn't find this. I guess I should submit it
there.

   Jeremy C. Reed
   http://www.reedmedia.net/