Re: Lotus 123 plugin?

[Nicholas Lee <nj lee plumtree co nz>]

On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 11:38:20AM +0200, Jon K Hellan wrote:
> From a cursory debugging session, this appears to be an unsupported
> version of the 123 file format.


Its from Lotus 97.

> Gnumeric is supposed to automatically recognize 123 files. It did not
> recognize this one. When I forced it to treat the file as 123, it
> recognized the record format, but none of the records apart from BOF
> (beginning of file) and EOF (end of file).


How do you force it to treat it as 123? 

> Unfortunately, nobody is working on fixing this at the moment. To
> solve your problem, you could try exporting from 123 in Excel format,
> and import that into Gnumeric.

Unfortunately that didn't seem to work either.  ie. the XLS exported
couldn't be read by gnumeric.


Nicholas