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Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2010 08:48:37 +0100
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Subject: Re: xls to text conversion ?
From: Maarten Vanneste <maarten DOT w DOT b DOT vanneste AT gmail DOT com>
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Reid, Kenneth,

Thanks for your prompt feedback with links. I will check both
alternatives over the weekend. The XLSperl has apparently the inverse
operation as well, which could be nice.

With best regards / Vennlig hilsen
Maarten





On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 5:00 AM, Reid Thompson <reid DOT thompson AT ateb DOT com> wrot=
e:
> 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=3Dxlsperl&ie=3Dutf-8&oe=3Dutf-8&aq=3Dt&rls=
=3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official&client=3Dfirefox-a
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