Using Wine to isolate a bug in OLE2 files from Gnumeric

[Jody Goldberg]

Hello, I maintain Gnumeric and have run into a problems when writing
xls files larger than 13-14 meg.  MS excel can read them, but
promptly corrupts them.  I had hoped this was a windows bug, but
just in case I installed an older copy of cross over office with
office 2k.   That combination produced exactly the same sort of
corruption.  That is likely good news to wine developers, your
emulation is excellent.  It also means that the problem is clearly
on my end.

A sample file is
    http://www.gnome.org/~jody/bigfile.xls.bz2
    (bunzip2 and keep a copy because it gets corrupted)

Loading it into MS Excel works smoothly, but subsequent reloads fail
and the file is corrupt.  It seems like the extended meta block
allocation tables are being lost for some reason.

Are there any OLE2 file format experts about that might have some
insight ?

Many Thanks
    Jody

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