Uwe,
i don't know if it will work for you, but on my linux box i use
=ssconvert= from the =gnumeric= package to convert from .xls to .csv.
in one project, the make rule looks like
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${BDIRCSVS}/%.csv: xlsxs/%.xlsx
ssconvert -T Gnumeric_stf:stf_csv $< fd://1 | \
awk '{ \
line = line $$0; \
ol = line; \
gsub("[^\"]", "", ol); \
if (length(ol)%2==0) { \
print line; \
line = "" \
} \
}' | \
grep '^,' | \
grep -v '^,,*$$' > $@
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(i could probably puzzle out why the awk and greps, but i don't recall
at the moment.)
cheers, Greg
