Am Montag, den 16.11.2009, 00:37 +0100 schrieb Marc Santhoff: > Am Sonntag, den 15.11.2009, 15:14 -0600 schrieb Phil Hess: > > ----- "Matt Shaffer" <dazappa.m...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > I understood his message to mean that he didn't want to use > > > windows-only apps/code. I'm sure he'll port it to those systems, and > > > if he doesn't, it's on sourceforge, so you could compile it yourself > > > ;). > > > > > > > > > I think a useful format for reports would be an image or an excel > > > file, but working with excel files is never easy. > > > > > > > Exactly. If there were an RTF equivalent for Excel files, that might be a > > good choice. > > There is (has been) a format called DIF (data interchange format) and > another one that i forgot about. In ancient times gnumeric and excel and > others could read them both. > > Maybe it's time for polishing up that old excel 4.0 and have a > look ... ;) > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Interchange_Format
I remembered, the other one was SYLK. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SYmbolic_LinK_(SYLK) > HTH, -- Marc Santhoff <m.santh...@web.de> -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus