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This code is imported into the gnumeric tree via a CVS virtual link,
in order to use the test framework checkout CVS module libole2.
This code was written with grateful thanks to:
Martin Schwartz - Author of Laola, father of free OLE2
Much useful information will be gleaned from the work on wine by.
Marcus Meissner, Francis Beaudet, Sylvain St-Germain
and Thuy Nguyen
The code breaks fairly cleanly into two seperate pieces,
firstly the raw block API whether small or large, and 2ndly the FILE *
style wrapper on top of the block API. Since there are two types of
block, there are two functions per percieved method that are accessed
via the stream's function pointer. This has a lot of good performance
characteristics, despite the percieved overhead of a 'virtual' call.
The exception to this being ms_ole_lseek which is non-staticly linked
for homogeneity.
Further thanks for the summary information code go to
Caolan McNamara - Heroic coding ledgend.
for his port of the Somar Software freeware DLL functions to get
summary info from OLE 2.0 document files, named CPPSUM available from
the Somar Software WWW site at http://www.somar.com.
The summary information code was extensively updated and re -
written by Frank Chiulli incorporating both DocumentSummaryInformation
and SummaryInformation streams, and implementing several new types.
This code has been written and is maintained by the following
people:
Michael Meeks (michael@helixcode.com)
Arturo Tena (arturo@directmail.org)
Frank Chiulli (fc-linux@home.com)
Any patches should be sent to both Arturo and myself,
Michael Meeks.
