Re: New versions of gnumeric don't recognize the type of the file

[gkanis cems umn edu]

Xmm, if you enable to accept ".txt" files then I need to save the files with 
the "txt" extension. If the file has no extension at all, i.e. I have a file 
called "data", will autorecognition work?

Thanks,
Vasilis


On Thursday 11 March 2004 10:25 am, you wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 11:53:55AM -0600, gkanis cems umn edu wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have asked this question before, but since I had not subscribed I was
> > not able to answer to your questions or even to give an example.
> > As the title says gnumeric does not recognize the type of the file I want
> > to import. I attach a file so that you can check it for yourself. Let me
> > clarify something here: Gnumeric has no problem opening excel or gnumeric
> > files. The file I have attached is a txt file (some data).
> > Currently, I am using gnumeric 1.2.0 because it works without any
> > problems, with regard to file autorecognizition. I had installed gnumeric
> > 1.2.2-1.2.4-1.2.6 but all of them failed to import the file. The error
> > message was "not supported file" or something like that. However, these
> > versions of gnumeric can import the file if a select the type of the
> > file.
> >
> > I am using Gentoo.
> >
> > I do not know what other informations you might need to identify the
> > problem, but I will be glad to provide you with all kind of informations.
> >
> > Thank you in advance for your time and help,
> > Vasilis
> >
> >
> >    1.0000000000000000E-02 :   2.1193795527852770 :  -2.5315328011685296 :
> >  -8.2969010853721969E-04 1.5090000000000001 :   1.2804472773959756E-05 : 
> > -4.5409672416076668E-05 :  -1.1799168530627262E-05 3.0080000000000000 :  
> > 1.3447421427924859E-06 :  -9.8789635705673210E-06 : 
> > -1.1054802534464176E-06 4.5070000000000006 :   1.8987713838862237E-06 : 
> > -1.0090546429693335E-05 :  -9.6996099873442077E-07 6.0060000000000002 :  
> > 4.6476667256141775E-06 :  -2.1452072004658774E-05 : 
> > -2.2465836080355793E-06 7.5050000000000008 :   1.7294507195120732E-05 : 
> > -7.3976643381397107E-05 :  -8.2409287722455988E-06 9.0040000000000013 :  
> > 8.5967270785054209E-05 :  -3.5032545676439537E-04 : 
> > -4.0687682947010893E-05 10.5030000000000001 :   5.2501565875510774E-04 : 
> > -2.0687166036924397E-03 :  -2.4750273263403637E-04 12.0020000000000007 : 
> >  3.7371388022369957E-03 :  -1.4366143525732757E-02 : 
> > -1.7572539720815984E-03 13.5010000000000012 :   2.9942631471621631E-02 : 
> > -0.1129495193485995 :  -1.4054652386231090E-02 15.0000000000000018 :  
> > 0.2635781393434841 :  -0.9795484724603494 :  -0.1235629314642693
>
> Ahhhh I see what you want.  For 1.2.1 I made the text probe routine
> more anal.  It will only guess *.csv, and *.tsv as potential text
> import targets.  So for now you can just rename the files.  For
> 1.2.7 (due this weekend) I'll relax that a bit and
>
> 1) accept *.txt
> 2) Re-enable the content probe to accept files that have no nul
>    characters in the first 80 bytes.  It's a kludge, but it's not
>    too bad.  Lets see how that holds up.
>
> PS
>     In the future it would be easier for us if you file these with
>     bugzilla.gnome.org
>
> Thanks