You'll have to use JExcelAPI which supports 95 format.  

On Tue, 22 Jun 2004 09:05:20 -0700, Troy McKinnon
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> 
> Could I somehow prepend the input stream?
> Or so I have to find a solution other than POI?
> 
> Troy
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Koundinya (Sudhakar Chavali)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "POI Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2004 3:15 AM
> Subject: RE: Unable to read entire header
> 
> > POI will not support older versions of EXcel. That is the reason you get
> that problem,
> >
> > POI supported documents should start with following charachters ��ࡱ�
> 
> 
> >
> > Regards
> > Sudhakar
> >
> >
> > --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > You may try separating the excel file first from the stream  then read
> > > it.
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Troy McKinnon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2004 11:54 AM
> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Subject: Unable to read entire header
> > >
> > > I have a big problem, and I am hoping for an easy solution or
> > > workaround.
> > >
> > > I am trying to read an excel file using POI, but I get the following
> > > error:
> > >
> > > java.io.IOException: Unable to read entire header; 279 bytes read;
> > > expected
> > > 512 bytes
> > >    at
> > > org.apache.poi.poifs.storage.HeaderBlockReader.<init><HeaderBlockReader.
> > > java
> > > :78>
> > >   ...
> > >
> > > If I open the file in excel and resave it.. all is good.  Unfortunately
> > > I
> > > don't have this option.
> > > Is there some way to work around this. I am receiving the file as an
> > > InputStream via Http.
> > >
> > > Troy
> > >
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