At 13:21 20.09.2006, Nick Burch wrote:
>Unfortunately, the guy who wrote most of HWPF went to work for a company 
>that has licensed the file format docs from Microsoft, before he got 
>everything working. That does mean that some things don't work, and 
>there's not really anyone around who knows enough about the word file 
>format to be able to provide fixes.

Thanks for the information. I seem to remember that I read that
somewhere on the HWPF web pages but would not have expected that
there's so little activity on HWPF compared to the big work and
interest on HSSF.

[DOP size...]
>Sounds like you know more about the word file format than most of us do. 
>Don't suppose you fancy contributing some patches? :)

I'm not sure whether my brain is happy with word file format
knowledge or not... (Sometimes its definitely not...) 
Anyway, providing patches would surely be interesting. I'll stick my
head out of my box when time is ready for patches :-) (Now climbing
back into my box brooding over word format.)

Rainer


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