On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 09:32:01AM -0400, Morten Welinder wrote:
> > ** (gnumeric:12346): CRITICAL **: ms_biff_query_next: assertion
> > 'q->length < 20000' failed
> 
> There is a positively *huge* record in that xls file, or else Gnumeric
> has gotten confused while parsing the file.  If you compile
> gnumeric yourself, you can try taking out the check in
> plugins/excel/ms-biff.c

That check is actually too lax.
No biff record can be more than 8224 bytes by definition.
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