Converting Lotus 123 files
Chris Jones
linux at stow-jones.co.uk
Wed Mar 9 19:02:39 UTC 2005
J.L. Coenders wrote:
>>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.
>
>
> Nope, they are binary.
>
> - Jeroen
>
That is right. Lotus did publish the record formats for 1-2-3 in the
early days (198?, I think).
If you are not prepared to get your hands dirty coding this up, I think
you are limited to using Excel itself and then save as csv (or even
Excel :( ).
Then again, you could try the following:-
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-28-2016618-1&searchclause=
--
Chris Jones
More information about the fedora-list
mailing list