If you have the old Xess installation media, I should be able to find
old SuSE 6.x or 7.x installation media from circa 1999/2000 to run it
on.
It should all still run in VirtualBox and mount storage with all your
spredsheet files to convert.
On Thu, 2017-02-09 at 17:06 -0800, Rich Shepard wrote:
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On Thu, 9 Feb 2017, Tom wrote:
> I deal with these things by exporting to universally digestible format
> from the original application.
Tom,
Except that I gave up on Xess years ago (when they raised their price) and
no longer have it on any system here.
> The only truly universal converter
I deal with these things by exporting to universally digestible format
from the original application.
I recall Xess was reliably reading/wring to Exel's .xls which would be
most likely 100% digestible by LibreOffice unless you used macros.
I've been fairly successful in converting not only data, bu
On Thu, 9 Feb 2017, Ken Stephens wrote:
> Sounds like if you can manually edit it in emacs, then you can create a
> script in either perl or your favorite flavor to convert it to a csv file
> that LO would be able to read.
Ken,
An emacs macro did the job after I stripped off all spreadsheet-s
Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Feb 2017, Rich Shepard wrote:
>
>> If not, suggestions on how to extract column headings and rows are
>> certainly welcome.
> Manual editing in emacs is doing the job. Would still be nice to know if
> there's a universal spreadsheet converter.
>
> Rich
>
On Thu, 9 Feb 2017, Rich Shepard wrote:
> If not, suggestions on how to extract column headings and rows are
> certainly welcome.
Manual editing in emacs is doing the job. Would still be nice to know if
there's a universal spreadsheet converter.
Rich
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I have a 113K XessSE-5.0.8 spreadsheet file from earlier this millenium
and LibreOffice's Calc does not recognize the format and convert it. Is
there a universal spreadsheet format converter for linux?
If not, suggestions on how to extract column headings and rows are
certainly welcome.
Ric
