Re: Reading Excel Documents under Linux

[Janina Sajka <janina@afb.net>]

Jennifer:

I'm quite new to using xl2html, but I believe it also supports this kind 
of export.
Very handy for those of us without Windows machines at hand (and no desire 
to go there, either).


On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, Jennifer E Jobst wrote:

> I believe you can save or export Excel files as CSV (comma separated value)
> files. This dumps to a flat text file where each value in a row is
> separated by a comma, and rows are separated by carriage returns (e.g. each
> row starts on a new line).
> 
> Of course, you have to get someone with Excel to save the file in CSV
> format in the first place, which may be more trouble than it's worth. :(
> 
> Best of luck!
> 
> -j
> 
> Jennifer E. Jobst
> Linux Information Development
> IBM Linux Technology Services
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> 
> This is the GNU solution you probably want.
> 
> http://www.xlhtml.org/
> 
> This utility converts Excel files into HTML file.
> 
> If you chain utilities, you should be able to convert Excel
> files to HTML then to ASCII or some other format. Or you
> could open it under lynx or some other apps.
> 
> Hope this helps!
> 
> On Thu, 10 Jan 2002 11:35:19 -0600
> "Martin G. McCormick" <martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu> wrote:
> 
> >          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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				Janina Sajka, Director
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