> On Oct 29, 2015, at 2:58 PM, Craig A. Berry <craigbe...@me.com> wrote:
> Now it runs but creates empty files. I’ll have to look into that sometime > but have to get back to real work at the moment. Oh, for goodness sake, when are these messages ever going to make it through moderation and show up on list? I got somewhat farther by setting this: $ DEFINE DECC$FILENAME_UNIX_REPORT 1 and testing with [.examples]demo.pl, but the resulting file is corrupt. Since an xlsx file is just a zip file containing a bunch of different Excel-specific files, you can examine its contents with unzip. Here’s what’s in it when created on VMS: $ unzip -l demo.xlsx Archive: demo.xlsx Length Date Time Name -------- ---- ---- ---- 848 10-29-15 17:49 docProps/app.xml 592 10-29-15 17:49 docProps/core.xml 606 10-29-15 17:49 xl/sharedStrings.xml 1992 10-29-15 17:49 xl/styles.xml 652 10-29-15 17:49 xl/workbook.xml 1018 10-29-15 17:49 xl/drawings/drawing1.xml 291 10-29-15 17:49 xl/drawings/_rels/drawing1.xml.rels 6263 10-29-15 17:49 xl/media/image1.png 6995 10-29-15 17:49 xl/theme/theme1.xml 1802 10-29-15 17:49 xl/worksheets/sheet1.xml 438 10-29-15 17:49 xl/worksheets/sheet2.xml 438 10-29-15 17:49 xl/worksheets/sheet3.xml 460 10-29-15 17:49 xl/worksheets/_rels/sheet1.xml.rels 979 10-29-15 17:49 xl/_rels/workbook.xml.rels 587 10-29-15 17:49 _rels/.rels -------- ------- 23961 15 files Here’s what’s in it when created on OS X: $ unzip -l demo.xlsx Archive: demo.xlsx Length Date Time Name -------- ---- ---- ---- 1609 10-29-15 18:02 [Content_Types].xml 587 10-29-15 18:02 _rels/.rels 848 10-29-15 18:02 docProps/app.xml 592 10-29-15 18:02 docProps/core.xml 606 10-29-15 18:02 xl/sharedStrings.xml 1992 10-29-15 18:02 xl/styles.xml 652 10-29-15 18:02 xl/workbook.xml 979 10-29-15 18:02 xl/_rels/workbook.xml.rels 1018 10-29-15 18:02 xl/drawings/drawing1.xml 291 10-29-15 18:02 xl/drawings/_rels/drawing1.xml.rels 6263 10-29-15 18:02 xl/media/image1.png 6995 10-29-15 18:02 xl/theme/theme1.xml 1802 10-29-15 18:02 xl/worksheets/sheet1.xml 438 10-29-15 18:02 xl/worksheets/sheet2.xml 438 10-29-15 18:02 xl/worksheets/sheet3.xml 460 10-29-15 18:02 xl/worksheets/_rels/sheet1.xml.rels -------- ------- 25570 16 files Nothing looks greatly amiss in the VMS version except that the oddly named file [Content_Types].xml is missing. The file does exist in the temp directory on VMS: $ dir/size [...]^[Content_Types^].xml;1 Directory MDA0:[CRAIG.SCRATCH.bGENbxoyB2] ^[Content_Types^].xml;1 3 Total of 1 file, 3 blocks. so something is preventing that file from getting added to the zip/xlsx archive. That’s got to be happening somewhere around here: https://github.com/jmcnamara/excel-writer-xlsx/blob/master/lib/Excel/Writer/XLSX/Workbook.pm#L962 and needs further investigation. ________________________________________ Craig A. Berry mailto:craigbe...@mac.com "... getting out of a sonnet is much more difficult than getting in." Brad Leithauser