In Office 2003 for Windows, it evetually opens the file fine, only curses beforehands.
SYLK appears to be a very important format for exchange between spreadsheet(-gnostic) software, like RTF for documents and WMF for pictures. It has CF_ code number 4 just after METAFILE. http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnwui/html/msdn_ddeole.asp http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnwui/html/msdn_ddesystp.asp That's why it has priority over CSV, which is a rather amorphous format anyway -- there is no such thing as CSV Specification. Microsoft also likes to honor tradition, like their BASIC. SYLK also happens to be the file format of MultiPlan. --- Joey K Tuttle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 20:54 -0700 2006/05/16, Oleg Kobchenko wrote: > >http://support.microsoft.com/kb/215591/ > > > >> ID,NAME > >> 666,MS > > > >Don' B H8N > > > Yes - I knew the workaround and even puzzled out that > the origination of the bug is that SYLK files begin with > ID;..... You would think that some bright programmer could > decide that if the third character isn't the expected ; > then it might be just an ordinary text file. Interesting > how difficult it seems to fix such a simple thing. > > BTW, it also (used to) fails in Windows too. Also, it is > any text file, not just csv. > > - joey > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
