Re: [Fwd: Re: Can't read Ruby Spreadsheet generated XLS files]

[Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>]

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 11:25:51PM +1100, John Machin wrote:
> Note that the Workbook stream is only 1032 bytes long; hence it is being  
> put in the "Short Sector Container Storage" [OOo jargon] or the  
> "Ministream" [MS jargon] ... this is unusual, some writing software  
> chickens out and pads short Workbook streams with zeroes so that they  
> are 4096 bytes long and thus qualify for the normal storage, so reading  
> software doesn't get much Ministream reading experience. I suspect that  
> the problem is here.

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=572290

Looks like the first time we've tried to read non-block aligned
content in the smallblock stream.  Patching will be simple.  I'll
update libgsf this evening.