RE: [ILUG] batching gnumeric (or gnome office stuff in general..)

From: Stephen_Reilly at domain dell.com
Date: Wed 06 Jun 2001 - 17:29:05 IST


John,
        but gnumeric can read .xls files fine, where's the advantage in the
conversion ?
        The gnumeric format btw is just ascii text compressed with gzip and
according to the manual is actually xml . . . so logically if you could
convert the xls spreadsheet to xml and then compress it with gzip you would
have yourself a .gnumeric file. Wait a sec, I say a function before for
converting a recordset to xml. hmmm, sorry just typing out loud.

steve

-----Original Message-----
From: John P. Looney [mailto:john at domain antefacto.com]
Sent: 06 June 2001 17:04
To: Irish LUG list
Subject: [ILUG] batching gnumeric (or gnome office stuff in general..)

 Anyone know if I can convert between fileformats, with starting up a GUI ?
Simple stuff, like twenty .xls files, that I want as gnumeric format...

Kate

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