Re: gnumeric as a file translation server

["J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)" <dm zensunni demon nl>]

On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 22:09:34 -0500, James R. Van Zandt wrote:
> I monitor a mailing list supporting blind users of Linux.  This user
> needs to read and write Excel files.  How hard would it be to set up a
> command line interface to gnumeric (or its libraries) to translate
> files from Excel to CVS and back?  

Gnumeric currently isn't the right tool for that job (but see
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnumeric-list/2002-February/msg00000.html).

In the short run, you're probably better of using catdoc's "xls2csv" and a
small perl script using the Spreadsheet::WriteExcel module to do csv -> xls.

HTH,
Ray
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