From:	lintux AT dds DOT nl (Wilmer van der Gaast)
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Subject:	Re: MS Excel File format?
Date:	19 Jan 2000 22:50:41 GMT
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On Wed, 19 Jan 2000 16:03:57 -0500, Ed James wrote:
> I don't suppose anyone can give me a clue where I can find file format
> docs for Excel, either version 2.1, 3 or 4?  I'm doing a program that
> generates an Excel file "on-the-fly" to be sent to another system and
> opened by Excel.  Microsoft's site itself has not been particularly
> useful.  TIA
I don't think Microsoft has released thos specs, at least not for free.
But you can try to generate a simple TAB table, not a flashy layout, but
Excel should be able to import that.

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