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On 2/4/2010 1:55 PM, Maarten Vanneste wrote:
> Dear all,
> I was wondering whether there is a cygwin tool/program which converts
> microsoft excel files to text. Any suggestions ?
> Thanking you in advance,
> With best regards,
> Maarten

I just ran through some options installed XLSperl at work for converting some production stuff ( this was 
linux, but being perl I'm assuming it should work fine via cygwin ).
http://www.google.com/search?q=xlsperl&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

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