command line conversion

[Aubrey Kilian <aubrey eng uct ac za>]

Hi All,

On 13 Jun 2000, the last post of a thread on command-line converting of
spreadsheets using gnumeric said :

*SNIP*
> > How about making Gnumeric able to be used as a command-line tool? I believe
> > Gnumeric is one of the best spreadsheet format converters on Linux platforms,
> > so it would be nice to use it in some scripts, to convert from plain-text to
> > XLS files... ;-)
*SNIP*
> I believe Jody has this in his sights, but it is still a little while
> away.


That last line was by a gentleman called "JP Rosevear".
Does anybody know if "Jody" ever got around to doing this?  Almost two years
have passed since then, and rummaging through the user manual and the mailing
list turned up nothing much more...

The issue is to be able to use gnumeric as a command-line tool to be able
to convert from one spreadsheet format to another...

Anybody have any ideas?  I have a specific Excel spreadsheet (Office XP I think)
that I've tried putting through many many other converter utilities (ALL of the
ones in the FreeBSD ports at least), and none of them can actually process this
specific spreadsheet...  Yes, I can open it in excel and then save as, but
what's the point in that?  I receive this spreadsheet from a customer on a
regular basis...

Thanks in advance
Regards
Aubrey

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