GNU bug report logs - #20891
emacs: Back off if .doc is not an Office document

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: era+emacs <at> iki.fi

Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2015 11:20:03 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: fixed

Found in version 24.4+1-4ubuntu5

Fixed in version 27.1

Done: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #59 received at 20891 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: era+emacs <at> iki.fi, Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> suse.de>, rpluim <at> gmail.com,
 20891 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, stefan <at> marxist.se
Subject: Re: bug#20891: emacs: Back off if .doc is not an Office document
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2019 08:51:40 +0100

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

> But then AFAIK MS Word documents had different signatures for
> different versions, so we should have several.

All .doc files allegedly start with the same eight bytes.

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