On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 10:23 -0600, Ian Kelly wrote: > On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 2:06 AM, Alex Smith <ais...@bham.ac.uk> wrote: > > On Sun, 2009-04-05 at 22:29 -0500, Aaron Goldfein wrote: > >> Like... Microsoft Excel. > > > > As far as I know, TNP2 couldn't read an Excel file; it has no > > spreadsheet software installed, is probably on too small a server to run > > OpenOffice, and runs the wrong OS to run Excel. (You'd be surprised how > > much reading of reports TNP2 has done in the past, but that mostly > > relies on them being in text form.) > > Is it also incapable of using the xlrd python package? > Wooble suggested the Perl packages for reading Excel files, too. So I suppose it's technically possible, although it would need a proposal to install it if you wanted to do it properly.
As for the general issue of attachments, I'm not sure how well they're archived in the usual Agora archives, which could become a problem down the lines. -- ais523
