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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Sun, 21 Nov 2004, Ron Clarke wrote:

> Hi Sindi,
>
> On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 19:32:57 +0000 (UTC)
> sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:
>
> > Is there some linux CLI (or even X) program smaller than StarOffice that
> > will deal with Excel files and let you edit and output something that MS
> > users can import?    I did not in a quick search find an xl2csv convertor.
> > Would sc import csv and let me edit it?
>
>    I use gnumeric from SW7.1, in BL2.  :)
>
>    You will need to install a heap of stuff (I guess most of Gnome) in order
> to get it to run, but it will read, write and save as Excel files.

Thanks, but I really DO NOT want to have to use GNOME, I would rather just 
turn down jobs that have to be returned in Excel format.  Since they are 
short on Czech science translators they are still putting up with me while 
I try to find a better solution than a text editor.

If they can export the Excel to csv, is there a linux CLI program that can 
edit csv, and would let me fill in table cells?  Is this something that 
I could do easily with a text editor and then send back csv?  I am not 
familiar with csv format.   What I got had a lot of empty spots that might 
have been marked as empty cells in the original but not in the html that 
they sent.  I have a few DOS spreadsheet programs and maybe one of them 
can deal with csv.