Re: Excel BIFF patch

[Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>]

On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 01:41:34PM +0100, Nick Lamb wrote:
> This patch makes the "old BIFF" excel files (ie Excel 2.1, 3.0 and 4.0)
> import much more cleanly and with more of the formulae and style info
> intact.
>
> (apply patch from within Excel plugin source)
>
> The majority of the changes do not touch any OLE era Excel file, since
> they are conditional on the file version. This patch has been tested
> fairly extensively both with the target (early BIFF files, either dredged
> up from archives or created in Excel 2002) and with non-target XL95 and
> XL97 test suites.
>
> Hopefully this can make it for Gnumeric 1.2 ?

I'm in patch review mode now.  This looks safe enough as its code
paths are all 'if (BIFF < 5)'.  Applied.

Thanks you're a hero for poring of this gunk.
    Jody