excel files?

excel files?

[Paul Migliorelli (+1 3 0 3 5 1 9 5 3 4 6)]

Hi all.  Here's a blasphemous question.  Uh oh.  Someone sent me an excel 
file something or other.  I know of antiword and pdftotext to make ascii. 
Do we have something to do the same to excel?  Thanks.

Re: excel files?

[Buddy Brannan]

Try xlhtml ... it's about the closest thing I've found, anyway. 

I know it's a Debian package--probably for other distros, too. 

If all else fails, check freshmeat.
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Re: excel files?

[Janina Sajka]

Regretably, it appears not to work with newer xls files.

Buddy Brannan writes:
> Try xlhtml ... it's about the closest thing I've found, anyway. 
> 
> I know it's a Debian package--probably for other distros, too. 
> 
> If all else fails, check freshmeat.
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RE: excel files?

[Chris Hofstader]

MS is public with the Excel file format and it is very clean and easy to
work with so extending a program that reads older Excel files shouldn't be
too hard.  No, I'm not volunteering. 

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Regretably, it appears not to work with newer xls files.

Buddy Brannan writes:
> Try xlhtml ... it's about the closest thing I've found, anyway. 
> 
> I know it's a Debian package--probably for other distros, too. 
> 
> If all else fails, check freshmeat.
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> Learn about Glyconutrients, a discovery that helps your body  protect,
> defend, and restore itself by enhancing cell communication. It's not  
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> 
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Re: excel files?

[David Csercsics]

Yes I think that sc can hanile these. Check the sc man page to see
if that will wrork. If that fails you can always look on freshmeat or
ourceforge as I'm sure that you are not the first person who needed en
get at an excel spreadsheet.

Re: excel files?

[Willem van der Walt]

Hello,
The latest version of catdoc can do what you want.
Regards, Willem


On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, Paul Migliorelli (+1 3 0 3 5 1 9 5 3 4 6) wrote:

> Hi all.  Here's a blasphemous question.  Uh oh.  Someone sent me an excel
> file something or other.  I know of antiword and pdftotext to make ascii.
> Do we have something to do the same to excel?  Thanks.
>
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Re: excel files?

[Sean McMahon]

Well perl has a collection of libs spreadsheet-parse excell and
spreadsheet-writeexcell.  I don't remember what spreadsheet-parse excell parses
the sheets into.  They really should have converted to html first or text.  Who
would do such a horrific thing, sending an excel file.
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Subject: excel files?


> Hi all.  Here's a blasphemous question.  Uh oh.  Someone sent me an excel
> file something or other.  I know of antiword and pdftotext to make ascii.
> Do we have something to do the same to excel?  Thanks.
>
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