RE: Gnumeric 0.65 & Excel

["Rory D. Hudson" <rory zumiez com>]

Thanks for your help Zbigniew, but I am still having a bit of trouble.
Please help


 -----Original Message-----
From:   Zbigniew Chyla [mailto:cyba gnome pl] 
Sent:   Saturday, May 26, 2001 5:27 AM
To:     Rory D. Hudson
Cc:     gnumeric-list gnome org
Subject:        Re: Gnumeric 0.65 & Excel

On Fri, 2001-05-25 at 15:27:22, Rory D. Hudson wrote:

> Ok I just downloaded the 0.65 version of gnumeric and I have a few
> questions.  First, it states that I need to set a value for
> GNUMERIC_ENABLE_XL_OVERWRITE.  What value do I set this to, and how do
I
> do this?

You should set environment variable named GNUMERIC_ENABLE_XL_OVERWRITE
to
_any_ value. If you're using bash, just add put the following line
somewhere
in your ~/.bash_profile:
export GNUMERIC_ENABLE_XL_OVERWRITE=1

Ok I  do not have a .bash_profile would I need to put this somewhere
else?

> The other question I have is regarding choosing Excel 95 as
> the default file Save As type.
> (...)
> 2)Change the FILE_FL_MANUAL for excel_save_95 in plugins/excel/boot.c
>       FILE_FL_AUTO.
>
> This worked great for version 0.61 but now I do not see a reference to
> FILE_FL_MANUAL in boot.c for 0.65 any suggestions?  

Change "manual_remember" to "auto" in plugins/excel/plugin.xml instead.

Ok I tried changing the plugins/excel/plugin.xml file and I changed the
two instances of manual_remember to auto and then I recompiled, but
nothing seemed to happen...Any suggestions on how to correct?  Thanks

With CVS version of Gnumeric (post 0.65) you can also make Excel95 the
default file saver (and still be able to open/save Gnumeric XML files)
without touching Gnumeric sources or recompiling it. Just add
default_saver_priority="60" attribute to second <service> tag
(describing
excel95 file saver) in plugin.xml file placed inside
<gnumeric_prefix>/lib/gnumeric/<gnumeric_version>/plugins/excel/
directory.


Zbigniew