Your message dated Wed, 4 Mar 2026 07:49:51 +1300 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line Re: Bug#307657: Cannot read (certain?) DOC files created by OpenOffice.Org has caused the Debian Bug report #307657, regarding please support small block text streams to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: antiword Version: 0.35-1 Severity: normal I created a simply document with OpenOffice.Org 1.1.2 and saved it as a Word document. When I tried to look at it with antiword, I only got the error: | I'm afraid the text stream of this file is too small to handle. This is both with antiword 0.35 and 0.36.1 and with documents stored with OpenOffice.Org as Word 6.0, Word 95 and Word 97/2000/XP. I tried the file in MS Word 2003 SP1 on Windows XP and it loaded without any problems, so this seems to be a problem in antiword. An example file is attached below. It's a fairly simple file - basically a bullet list with a number of items. (Thanks for antiword, by the way. I'm a text-based user and really appreciate not having to load OOo just to view DOC documents people send to me.) -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.10-1-686 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages antiword depends on: ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-21 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an -- no debconf information -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/<<attachment: xx.doc>>
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--- Begin Message ---tag 307657 wontfix thanks On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 07:49:16PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Antiword team <[email protected]> [2005-05-05 20:19]: > > This is not a bug, it is a missing feature. > > OK. > > > Let me explain. > ... > > The reason for not implementing the missing fearture is simple. Word > > documents that use the small block text stream can not be produced by Word > > for Windows (all versions), but only Word for Mac. And now by OpenOffice. > > Note that these documents can be read by all versions of Word. > > Thanks for the explanation. I hope that you will get around to > implementing this feature at some point, and I'm therefore leaving > this bug report open as a feature request. More than 20 years later this hasn't been addressed, and antiword upstream has been inactive for many years so realistically I don't think it ever will be fixed. There are also other tools packaged for Debian which seem to be able to handle such files, for example catdoc. Testing with xx.doc from the original report: $ antiword xx.doc I'm afraid the text stream of this file is too small to handle. $ catdoc xx.doc fds fds fds fds fds fd Therefore I'm going to close this as "wontfix". Cheers, Olly
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