Converting Lotus 123 files

[Jeff Vian]

On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 07:23 +0100, J.L. Coenders wrote:
> On Sunday 06 March 2005 23:28, Truls Gulbrandsen wrote:
> > J.L. Coenders wrote:
> > | Does anyone know a good tool to convert old Lotus 123 files to a
> >
> > different
> >
> > | (more modern) format, like openoffice?
> > |
> > | A friend asked me if I could find out how to open these files. Openoffice
> > | doesnt seem to do the job.
> > |
> > | - Jeroen
> >
> > Hi there,
> > an early version of Oo had a converter for Lotus 123 files but I
> > understand that it was ommitted in later versions.  I do think that
> > StarOffice maintain such converter but I am not sure.
> >
> > The current version of 123 or Lotus SmartSuite is able to save as excel
> > files which again can be opened in Oo.
> >
> > Personally I prefer Lotus to excel and do not consider 123 to be
> > "unmodern".
> >
> > Regards,
> > Truls
> 
> The unmodern did not refer to Lotus itself, but more to the files I have, 
> which are created somewhere in the ninetees.
> 

Early versions of 123, IIRC, used an ascii file similar to the flat
files used for dbase2.

You might try opening them with something like vim and see what the
actual structure is.  It may be easy to read the structure, then again
maybe not.

> - Jeroen
>