Subject: Fwd: Re: warning message
From: John H. Raines, Jr. (raines@one.net)
Date: Tue Jun 05 2001 - 16:31:25 CDT
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On 6/5/01 at 3:55 PM John H. Raines, Jr. <raines@one.net> wrote:
From: John H. Raines, Jr. <raines@one.net>
To: "Dom Lachowicz" <dominicl@seas.upenn.edu>
Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2001 17:29:45 -0400
Subject: Re: warning message
As a non-programmer, but a user, I will tell you that these kinds of
messages are "bugs" or incorrect from the users viewpoint and will not be
acceptable from a long term standpoint. No organization is going to want
to deploy a program that issues these kind of "benign" warnings on a
regular basis. At a minimum it is annoying. At worst it confuses less
hardy users and causes distrust of the program in general. It definitely
should be on the list of behaviors to change before 1.0.
keep up the the good work guys, a really nice program so far.
Regards,
J. Raines
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On 6/5/01 at 3:55 PM 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.
Dom
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