Subject: Re: warning message
From: Sam TH (sam@uchicago.edu)
Date: Tue Jun 05 2001 - 15:26:06 CDT
On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 03:55:10PM -0400, Dom Lachowicz wrote:
> Quoting gino peregrini <gino@ghazalpage.net>:
>
> > I've recently started running IceWM on RedHat 7.1. When I open AbiWord +
> > a file from a command line, I get the following message repeated three
> > or four times. The warning appears in the term and AbiWord seems to
> > function fine. The warnings only appear when I open AbiWord and a file
> > by issuing "AbiWord _filename_."
> >
> > Does anyone have any insights on this warning? (BTW, my files are either
> > RTF or ABW.)
> >
> >
> > WARNING (offset 00000000): Reading of Header Section failed
> > WARNING (offset 00000000): UID1 has unknown value. This is probably not
> > a (parsable) Psion 5 file
>
> These warnings are quite benign. What abiword does is the following:
>
> 1) Try to recognize the document's contents
> 2) If that doesn't work, try to recognize the document's extension
> 3) If that doesn't work, open it as text
>
> So what you see is the Psion importer trying to recognize the contents of the
> file and failing. This is normal.
This is a bug. We should be trying Psion last, not before RTF and
ABW.
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