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

http://keesan.freeshell.org/bl/xlppthtml-bl2.tgz
xlhtml and ppthtml and man pages and a couple of scripts to use these with 
netscape (maybe also with other browsers).
Converts Excel .xls or Powerpoint .ppt to HTML format.
ppthtml 19K.  No special dependencies.

Home page:
http://chicago.sourceforge.net/xlhtml

Source code for version 0.5
http://prdownload.sf.net/chicago/xlhtml-0.5.tgz

My version is glibc.  Should I attempt uclibc-static or can someone do a 
libc5 version instead?

There is a DOS binary.
http://prdownload.sf.net/chicago/xlHtm040.zip

I mentioned this some time in the last month, see the archives.

Using busybox expr I get a 'syntax error' but packages install with 
installpkg.

Sindi

On Thu, 8 Mar 2007, Greg Mayman wrote:

> On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 16:44:48 +1300, 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:
>
> > Greg Mayman wrote:
>
> > > Can BasicLinux be made to read PowerPoint (.PPS) files?

> The reason I asked is that some of my friends occasionally send me
> Powerpoint files which of course I can't view.
>
> I shall just have to keep reminding them not to send them.

There are also online conversion sites for many MS formats.
They post or mail you the result.

> Greg