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Re: BrickBank ! (was Re: BrickBay Enhancement )
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Date: 
Fri, 8 Sep 2000 22:40:36 GMT
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Jan-Albert van Ree wrote:
> Since so far some "advanced" features are for Windows users only (Excel
> sales list for instance)
Try star office on Linux.  It seems to handle Excel and Word docs
for me on Solaris, so it probably does on Linux too.

> if I only had the skills to program some perl script to convert a
> .csv file to XML I'd have done it already. However I have very little
> experience in perl and virtually no time to learn it :-(
This particular transformation looks trivial.  I bet you could
learn enough Perl to do it in less than an hour.
> And it would mean
> that for each OS type a different interpreter would have to be written,
> since perl for Windows appears to be too limited for most things at the
> moment...
I think the same script would work fine in this case, actually.

Followups to lugnet.off-topic.geek
(which I don't actually read, sorry)
/Eric McC/



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(...) Since so far some "advanced" features are for Windows users only (Excel sales list for instance) I mentioned it, since all these neat things simply don't work for me. I also had some problems browsing the site, although most of those are gone (...) (26 years ago, 8-Sep-00, to lugnet.market.services)

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