On Tue, 7 May 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> - Saved it in Gnumeric XML format
>
> Here are the results:
>
> -rw-r--r-- 1 pll pll 16384 May 7 08:26 sync_wr_performance1.xls.orig
> -rw-r- 1 pll pll 15360 May 7 08:26 sync_wr_performance1-nosheets.xls
> -rw-r--r-
Paul Iadonisi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spouted the following and then ducked:
>>> I'm sorry, but I'll settle for nothing less than 100% space savings.
Ah, yes, space, the final frontier...
Bayard
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Bayard R. Coolidge N1HO
On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 09:28:59AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[snip]
> Of course, I'm assuming they chose InfoZip format because it's also
> available on Windows as well as Linux, and therefore allows one to
> more easily exchange files with users on different OSes. So, that's
> not a b
In a message dated: 07 May 2002 09:17:55 EDT
Mark Komarinski said:
>The README for OO 1.0 indicates they're using Info-ZIP to compress their
>XML files.
Ayup, so it seems. And when you unzip the archive, tar it up and
gzip it, you end up with greater space
savings:
-rw-r--r-- 1 pll
In a message dated: Tue, 07 May 2002 09:04:44 EDT
Marc Evans said:
>The default xml format is zipped for gnumeric. I'd be willing to bet that
>the majority of th esavings are due to the zipping...
I wasn't aware of that. However, doesn't that make you wonder why MS
doesn't allow for the same
On Tue, 2002-05-07 at 08:58, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> So, using Gnumeric just removing the 2 blank sheets from this file reduced
> the size of the file by over 1k. Further, saving it as an XML file further
> reduced it to 2.7k! That's slightly more than 1/6 the original size,
> that's what
I received an Excel spreadsheet from a co-worker recently, opened it
under Gnumeric. Once in Gnumeric, I noticed that for some reason,
there appeared to be 3 "sheets" to this spreadsheet, the last 2 of
which were blank (this seems to be a thing with Excel, other
spreadsheets I've seen in the
