Re: Gnumeric 0.76 experiences (long)

[Charles Wyble <jackshck yahoo com>]

Nick Lamb wrote:

> X. Early (non OLE) XLS files, not for 1.0
>
> I understand that these files can still be created today, and that there
> might be many millions of them out there.

Well I don't know about millions, but I am sure that some are still out there.

> I don't know how seamlessly
> they load them into Excel XP, but presumably it can salvage at least the
> data (text, grid of float values) and simple formulae.

More than likely.

> Of course Microsoft engineers have documentation (well maybe)

Yes they do.  The MS doc on the file format, can be found at
http://www.cubic.org/source/archive/fileform/misc/excel.txt

> and source code (probably) for earlier implementations to work from. Gnumeric does
> not AFAIK have access to anything on this subject. Is anyone already
> working on this, or does anyone have insight to share?

Some C and perl code for reading and writing excel files, can be found at
http://www.sector13.org/jason/xls
I have not tested it, because I do not have any Excel v2 files.

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Charles Wyble
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