From: "Martin G. McCormick" <martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu>
To: blinux-list@redhat.com
Subject: Reading Excel Documents under Linux
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 11:35:19 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200201101735.g0AHZJg61835@dc.cis.okstate.edu> (raw)
Is there any non graphical utility in Linux or UNIX that
will read Excel documents? I run up against one of these about
twice a year or so on a very irregular basis. It is possible to
use the strings utility on the binary and at least tell what it
is about, but it totally destroys any formatting and only serves
to satisfy my curiosity as to what words, etc were in there.
It's a really dirty way to access it so I am asking if there is
anything better or if anybody who can tell me about it knows the
format of an Excel document. If I need to write such a utility,
I would love to make it freely available so others can use it so
I don't want to go the non disclosure route at all.
Martin McCormick
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