[oak perl] Fwd: Excel Annoyances Needed for New Book

[David Fetter]

On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 04:50:29PM -0800, Craig McLaughlin wrote:
> 
> 
> On Fri, 6 Feb 2004, B. E. G. wrote:
> > David Fetter <david at fetter.org> wrote:
> > > Top Excel Annoyance:  I can't buy a Linux version :)
> > 
> > Spreadsheet::ParseExcel has worked well for me (reading and
> > writing), no fancy GUI or anything, but who needs one of those?
> > :^)
> > 
> > Benjamin
> 
> While not very perlish, there's always gnumeric, which is an
> excellent (and surprisingly complete!) spreadsheet prog / Excel
> clone.

I have OpenOffice.  I have gnumeric.  And when I get an Excel
spreadsheet, I have to fire up my Mac to do anything useful with it.

Cheers,
D
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