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8 <DD>Now ole Root Entry is searched by entry type rather than by name. It
9 is better fix for same problem which was fixed in 0.94.1. Fixed building
10 of catppt postscript docs.
11 It might be not qualify for release, but since I've lost archives and
12 have no hope of recreating distribution with same SHA1 sum from working
13 copy of repository which was left, I prefer to make new release.
14 <DT>0.94.1 Feb 09 2006
15 <DD>Fixed some problems with OLE parsing. Fixed some issues with
16 codepage search introduced in the 0.94. Fixed negative record length in
19 <DD>Added catppt utility to process powerpoint files. Now xls2csv proprerly recognizes Mac and other codepages which Microsoft refers by numbers and other world by names. Support ansicpg command in RTF. Also lot of small bug fixes
20 <DT>0.93.4 Sep 30 2004. Wedding release.
21 <DD>After about a year of existence of version 0.93.3 numerous bug
22 reports was send to me and incorporated into CVS. So it is time to
23 release new one. Fixed lot of bugs concerning rtf parser and xls3csv.
24 Added ability to define customizable page separator for multipage
25 spreadsheets and command line switch to specify desired maximal
26 precission of floating point numbers (default now is output as many
27 digits as it is). Also fixed bug with reading pre-OLE word/write files
28 and text files (Debian bug #255625).
29 <DT>0.93.3 Nov 15 2003
30 <DD>It was planned as feature release. It has support for Excel Date
31 formatting, output of blank cells and help window in wordview.
32 Unfortunately, during its development important bug was found in
33 ole parser code. So I have to publish this release real soon after
35 <DT>0.93.2 Nov 14 2003
36 <DD>Improved performance of OLE parser, fixed problems with unicode
37 chars 0xFF00-0xFFFF in catdoc, rewrite wordview for unicode-aware
38 version of Tcl, with support of displaying text in language different
39 from current locale. Reworked autoconf configuration.
40 <DT>0.93.1 Sep 24 2003
41 <DD>Fixed numerous bugs in newer OLE and RTF code, including problem
42 with incorrectly interpreting last (incomplete) 256-byte block of text
43 as Unicode. Restored support for pre-OLE Word versions, which was
44 accidently lost in 0.93
46 <DD>Added proper handling of OLE structure (by Alex Ott).
48 <DD>Added RTF parser at last (contributed by Alex Ott). MS-DOS
49 executable for xls2csv is included. Some code clean up and splitting.
50 <DT>0.91.6 May 24 2003
52 <DD>Added autodetect of output charset from current locale.
53 Fixed handling of RK and MULRK records in xls2csv. No more missing
54 numbers. Fixed long-standing bug with loosing of first 8 symbols when
56 I finally began to provide MS-DOS executables for 0.91.x series
58 <DT>0.91.5 January 30 2002
59 <DD>I finally got to catdoc again. UTF-8 output is added.
60 Just specify utf-8 as output charset.
61 <DT>0.91.4 December 30 1999
62 <DD>Fixed important bug in xls2csv - improper recognition of numeric
63 cells (as opposed to formula). Fixed segfault when catdoc is used to
64 recode plain text files.
65 <DT>0.91.3 December 14 1999
66 <DD>Mainly xls2csv fixes - xls2csv now recognizes some options (man page
67 is in sync), added endianess check to configure, so xls2csv compilies
68 correctly out of the box on big-endian machines
69 <DT>0.91.2 October 19 1999
70 <DD>This is first verison which includes <b>xls2csv</b> program. Also,
71 some long-standed bugs are fixed and newly-introduced bug when catdoc
72 hangs on broken files. Although these files are not read properly
73 without -b switch. New charset <a href="koi8-u.txt">koi8-u</a> is added
74 to distribution. If you want to use it in the stable version, just
75 download it from here and put in the catdoc library directory.
77 New switch -l is added. It causes catdoc to list available charsets in
80 <DT>0.91.1 October 15 1999
81 <DD>As it was expected it was wrong decision to believe information
82 about extended charset from word document header. Now we analyze
83 encoding for each 256-byte page separately (becouse it is possible that
84 first ones would be 8-bit and other 16-bit). When processing non-word
85 files (i.e. plain text) encodings are converted and -u is taken into
86 account, so catdoc can be used as generic character converter, which
87 supports utf8 and utf16 (both byteorders) as input.
88 <DT>0.91.0 October 12 1999
89 <DD>Implemented new format analyzis. Now most versions of word format
90 as well as MS-Write and rtf are detected. Boundaries of main text stream
91 are also detected, so no more garbage is produced at the end of file
92 <DT>0.90.3 August 11 1999
93 <DD>Fixed small OS-specific bugs - broken isspace in Turbo C under DOS
94 and %x was replaced %i for compatibility with SunOS 4.
95 <DT>0.90.2 May 24 1999
96 <DD><A HREF="mailto:run@pirit.com">Artem Chuprina</A> pointed out to
97 segfault error when non-existent charset is specified in command line.
98 It turned out to be silly bug in check_charset function with oneline
100 HREF="ftp://ftp.ice.ru/pub/vitus/catdoc-0.90.2.patch">one-line
102 <DT>0.90.1 Nov 26 1998
103 <DD>Duncan Simpson pointed out to numerous places in catdoc source where
104 paranoid sysadmin could suspect buffer overflow. They was investigated
105 and either rewritten or commented why they are safe.
106 Also fixed minor bug in Makefile (make args are now propagated to
107 subdirs) and wordview (saving files now works).
109 <DD>Fixed bug with redeclaring source_csname and target_csname in main.
110 Fixed bug in configure when dealing with wish 8.0.3. Catdoc considered
111 stable enough to be released.
112 <DT>0.90b5 Oct 14 1998
114 <DD>Fixed handling of 0x1F char (soft hyphen in Word 6.0),
115 now it is translated to 0x00AD (unicode soft hyphen)
116 Fixed permissions for manual page
117 Added --with-install-root configure arg to simplify
118 building of binary packages.
120 <DT>0.90b4 September 17 1998
122 <DD>Added proper configuration of library dir in wordview.
123 Added --disable-charset-check config option
124 Added 0x2026 symbol in ascii.rpl
125 Added more Windows codepages in distribution
126 <DT>0.90b3 September 11 1998
127 <DD> added -x option to simplify debugging of substitution maps
128 <DT>0.90b2 September 10 1998
129 <DD>Added replacement sequences for some special charachers which
130 present in cp1251 and cp1252. Fixed some filename-handling problems
132 <DT>0.90b1 September 8 1998
133 <DD>Added cyrillic transliteration into <code>ascii.replchars</code>
134 fixed some bugs in configuration. Added <code>us-ascii</code> output
136 <DT>0.90a3 September 7 1998
138 <DD>Fixed small bug in table handling, which caused catdoc to output
139 extra column delimiter just before row delimiter. Added autoconf
140 configuration. <CODE>install</CODE> is back, although not for charsets
141 <DT>0.90a2 August 18 1998
142 <DD>version 0.90 was tested on BSDI and Solaris platform. Makefile was
143 rewritten to avoid use of highly incompatible
144 <CODE>/usr/{ucb,bin}/install</CODE>
145 <DT>0.90a1 August 13 1998
146 <DD>Catdoc undergone major rewrite. Now it has proper charset
147 handling, including UNICODE and runtime configurability.
148 <DT>0.35 - June 5 1998
149 <DD> Fixed bug with -s switch which prevents catdoc from returning non-zero
150 code when invoked on UNIX text file
151 <DT>0.34 - Apr 28 1998
152 <DD> Files now opened in binary mode thus allowing catdoc to work on DOS
153 and simular systems. All specs arrays now have terminating NULL
154 <DT>0.33 - October 1997
156 <DD> Fixed missing terminating NUL in specs array, which caused random
157 seqfaults on Linux and many other systems, because <B>specs</B> is searched
158 by <B>strchr</B> fynction
159 <DT>0.32 - August 1997
160 <DD> First mayor public release, uploaded to CTAN. Tk interface appeared,
161 manual page was written. Unfortunately, this release was buggy.
162 <DT>0.1 - 10 Dec 1996
163 <DD>First release can be traced. It was posted to
165 href="http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux.development.apps/msg/9be6e220d123161a">comp.lang.development.apps</a>