On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 07:51, Frankie wrote: > thats great.... > > do u have a suggestion for me as to a spreadsheet format ???
.sxw if you must be free, and encourage people to use OpenOffice on all platforms, or .xls if you want to get to practical working state quickly. Or if you really want to spend some time, look into content managment platforms with conversion capabilities -- I think Plone can do some of this sort of work, and is supposed to have good OpenOffice/StarOffice support. > > Its strange.. rtf has been around for many years.. but noone has greated a > spreadsheet version? > nope. > > seems odd.. > > > rgds > > Franki > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Praedor Atrebates > Sent: Tuesday, 1 April 2003 11:37 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [expert] open source spreadsheet file format. > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Tuesday 01 April 2003 10:07 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Tuesday 01 Apr 2003 3:46 pm, Frankie wrote: > > > its not in xls format... > > > > > > its currently csv, and as far as I know, having a perl script create xls > > > format data would be quiet hard.. > > > > I suggested this because just about any spreadsheet can read/write .xls. > I > > use Gnumeric, and use .xls to cross-platform files. Equally, just about > > all will read in .cvs files. > > > > > Also, I don't want to support M$ file formats.. > > > > Understood - but being practical, it's there, available to all, and so far > > as I know M$ does not benefit one iota by your using it. Your choice - > > just what linux is about <g> > > I certainly understand the desire to not support M$ file formats. Even > though > M$ doesn't gain directly from such support, they do peripherally. It > perpetuates the use of M$ software and the idea that M$ is a "standard" that > people need to follow. This sort of thinking is one of the reasons that > people seem to automatically assume that it is OK to send you a *.doc file > because, NATURALLY, you will use Windoze and/or Word. Of COURSE it is > acceptable to send *.doc files or request/require doc files because everyone > uses Word/windoze. It is better to encourage use of more democratic/open > formats, kill the assumption that everyone uses M$ products and they are all > that exist or are useful. > > It is handy to be able to read other people's files, regardless of the app > they used to create it, but it is better if a more universally available and > untied format is used. It irritates me when I receive a doc file from a > family member who has made the above erroneous assumption. This is an > endemic problem that can best be addressed by using open formats whenever > possible in preference to ANY closed format. > > > - -- > Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose > of > common sense. > -- Chapman Cohen > > Fingerprint: > D170 2A02 B426 6AA0 5E68 3EDC 68AA FDB0 961E 4F18 > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQE+ibIcaKr9sJYeTxgRAlxnAJ9p6rTJCSs/t190/Mbkd3MspC0BwgCgr+sw > LwExnYhP5HOhvXrJFml0es0= > =mMuA > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Are you compliant yet? ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3514.txt
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