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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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: era+emacs <at> iki.fi, schwab <at> suse.de, rpluim <at> gmail.com, 20891 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, stefan <at> marxist.se
Subject: bug#20891: emacs: Back off if .doc is not an Office document
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2019 10:48:26 +0200

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
> Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> suse.de>,  rpluim <at> gmail.com,  era+emacs <at> iki.fi,
>   20891 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,  stefan <at> marxist.se
> 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.

Maybe my reading of the 'magic' file is wrong, but it seems to say
otherwise.
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