Re: PlanPerfect Import?

[Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>]

On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 09:39:22AM +0200, Marc Petitmermet wrote:
> We have very large lists of our complete hardware and software 
> inventory in PlanPerfect (running on DOS). Now, we have to import 
> these data into an Oracle database. I was told that PlanPerfect 
> cannot export the data in any format that other programs can read, 
> e.g. simple tab delimited ASCII (because I don't know PlanPerfect I'm 
> not sure if this is correct). Therefore, I was searching the Internet 
> for some converter or program that can import PlanPerfect files. I 
> found several hints to Gnummeric. So I installed SuSE Linux 8.0 with 
> Gnummeric. But when importing the PlanPerfect files, I get the error 
> message that plan_perfect.la is missing.
>
> Can anybody tell me what happened to this plug-in? Where I can find 
> it? Or if somebody has any idea to convert PlanPerfect files into a 
> tab delimited ASCII file?

The PlanPerfect importer is disabled in the stable release of
Gnumeric.  We had no specs for it and the code had started to decay.
However, reading your post reminded me of the problem and I contacted
the original author who was able to direct me at some docs.

The development tree has now re-enabled the plan perfect importer
and I've tweaked to get it at least partially working again. It is
not an ultra high priority but the work could be done fairly quickly
if someone was interested.  If you have sample files we could use
them to validate the importer.