Re: Debian app to read some MS file format?

2003-09-12 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 01:26:55 +0100, Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Latest developments: > > Farnell have told me that the catalogue CD was produced by Stibo > - so I have written to them asking for > suggestions on reading their

Re: Debian app to read some MS file format?

2003-09-12 Thread Pigeon
Latest developments: Farnell have told me that the catalogue CD was produced by Stibo - so I have written to them asking for suggestions on reading their catalogues under Linux, and also suggested that they should include a statically-linked Linux version of the catal

Re: Debian app to read some MS file format?

2003-09-09 Thread Pigeon
On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 12:06:42AM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * Pigeon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030908 20:32]: > > I did find HTML tags like > > > > > > > > > > > > > > in one of the .dat files, though only that one - perhaps an Oracle > > database is involved? From what I can make out, dbishel

Re: Debian app to read some MS file format?

2003-09-09 Thread Pigeon
On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 11:07:05AM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 04:07:04AM +0100, Pigeon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I got an answer... > > > > > From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Sep 08 13:01:51 2003 > > > > > > Sorry, our CD catalogue is only designed to function on Window

Re: Debian app to read some MS file format?

2003-09-09 Thread Pigeon
On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 05:53:09AM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > Are you familiar with http://www.filext.com? Oh, very useful! Cool. Thanks. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: OT -- Re: Debian app to read some MS file format?

2003-09-09 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 08:22:57AM -0400, Hall Stevenson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > At 11:07 AM 9/9/2003 +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > >Incidentally, I downloaded some PDFs from their site, which were among > >the worst-displaying I've ever seen. Not sure what they're smoking. > >Characters al

OT -- Re: Debian app to read some MS file format?

2003-09-09 Thread Hall Stevenson
At 11:07 AM 9/9/2003 +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: Incidentally, I downloaded some PDFs from their site, which were among the worst-displaying I've ever seen. Not sure what they're smoking. Characters all over the page, whatnot. Which particular PDFs were these ?? I'd like to take a look myself.

Re: Debian app to read some MS file format?

2003-09-09 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 04:07:04AM +0100, Pigeon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 02:17:55AM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 01:28:33AM +0100, Pigeon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 03:57:23AM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > >

Re: Debian app to read some MS file format?

2003-09-09 Thread Carl Fink
On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 04:01:42AM +0100, Pigeon wrote: > I've also found some more database files with different suffices which > may give someone another clue? > > .cdx > .dbf > .edc > .edh > .edi > .edl > .edp > .eds > .edt > .edx > .fpt > .ltf > .ods > .odt Are you familiar with http://www.f

Re: Debian app to read some MS file format?

2003-09-09 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Pigeon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030908 20:32]: > I did find HTML tags like > > > > > > > in one of the .dat files, though only that one - perhaps an Oracle > database is involved? From what I can make out, dbishell can read > Oracle data, but it needs a perl module DBD::Oracle to be built, whic

Re: Debian app to read some MS file format?

2003-09-08 Thread Dave Thayer
On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 04:01:42AM +0100, Pigeon wrote: > I've also found some more database files with different suffices which > may give someone another clue? > > .cdx > .dbf > .edc > .edh > .edi > .edl > .edp > .eds > .edt > .edx > .fpt > .ltf > .ods > .odt > Well, the .cdx, .dbf, and .fpt f

Re: Debian app to read some MS file format?

2003-09-08 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 09:07:54PM -0600, Dave Thayer wrote: > On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 08:02:24PM +0100, Pigeon wrote: > > I've just been given a copy of the Farnell Electronics catalogue CD. > > This has the unfortunate design of wanting to install some Windoze > > package in order to read the cat

Re: Debian app to read some MS file format?

2003-09-08 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 02:17:55AM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 01:28:33AM +0100, Pigeon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 03:57:23AM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > on Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 08:02:24PM +0100, Pigeon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > >

Re: Debian app to read some MS file format?

2003-09-06 Thread Dave Thayer
On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 08:02:24PM +0100, Pigeon wrote: > I've just been given a copy of the Farnell Electronics catalogue CD. > This has the unfortunate design of wanting to install some Windoze > package in order to read the catalogue. > > I suspect that they've used a customised version of some

Re: Debian app to read some MS file format?

2003-09-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 01:28:33AM +0100, Pigeon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 03:57:23AM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 08:02:24PM +0100, Pigeon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > I've just been given a copy of the Farnell Electronics catalogue CD. >

Re: Debian app to read some MS file format?

2003-09-06 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 03:57:23AM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 08:02:24PM +0100, Pigeon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I've just been given a copy of the Farnell Electronics catalogue CD. > > This has the unfortunate design of wanting to install some Windoze > > package

Re: Debian app to read some MS file format?

2003-09-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 08:02:24PM +0100, Pigeon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I've just been given a copy of the Farnell Electronics catalogue CD. > This has the unfortunate design of wanting to install some Windoze > package in order to read the catalogue. Ask Farnell what they've used. And why

Re: Debian app to read some MS file format?

2003-09-05 Thread Chris Wilcox
I think I'm right in saying that the 'xtras' folder is a Macromedia thing to do with either Flash or Director..can't comment on the dll's though. Regards, nry The CD has the following .dlls, although these may only be for the installer? ./aasicl7.dll ./aasparse.dll ./aasutil.dll ./ani/xtras

Debian app to read some MS file format?

2003-09-05 Thread Pigeon
I've just been given a copy of the Farnell Electronics catalogue CD. This has the unfortunate design of wanting to install some Windoze package in order to read the catalogue. I suspect that they've used a customised version of something fairly common in the M$ world; the CD has a number of direct