Re: broken Excel export in gnumeric 1.0.5?

["Reuben D Budiardja" <reubendb goshen edu>]

On Monday 06 May 2002 11:05 am, Jody Goldberg wrote:
> On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 10:48:00AM -0500, Reuben D Budiardja wrote:
> > file in gnumeric, using fixed width. I edited a little bit, then I saved
> > as excel format. The next morning when I tried to open the .xls file, it
> > gives me an error message, something like:
> > " the file is not an OLE file. It may be too old for gnumeric to read.
> > Sorry, the management".
> >
> > So, my reaction was, "huh ?". I tried to open the file using Excel in win
> > machine, and it gives me "File is not recognizable".
> >
> > Then I tried my other larger gnumeric file, saved it as excel format.
> > Same result with excel: I cannot open it in MS Excel.
> >
> > So, is this a known bug?
>
> This is almost certainly a known libole2 bug.
> Basicly we can not save a file larger than 6.8 meg.  I'm working on
> a replacement now that will fix this.  I don't know if it will be
> back ported to 1.0.x.

But my file is only 3.3 Kb in gnumeric. The exported (broken) file as xls is 
only 20 Kb. Is this because of the same bug also? I did not remember any of 
this happen with earlier version of gnumeric (I did more export to xls before 
1.0.x).

Thanks.
Rdb