On 6/16/2020 8:22 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
Been using it 24/7 since around v5.0 in an OS/2 DOS session. It's been forever since I tried to export to another format other than .wk1, which is done simply via saving with the different file extension. Anyone here remember what other extensions are available? I don't see anything on the subject with F1 help, only tranlating, which seems to be only for importing. Presumably .csv should be one, but what about others?
It is eons since I have used Quattro Pro (for DOS or otherwise) and I don't think there was another popular spreadsheet format back in the mid '90s, IIRC.
Excel was just getting popular due to the spread of the first MS Office version, using its own proprietary file format.
And contemporary DOS programs like SuperCalc or MultiPlan used their own file format, but always were able to both import and export Lotus 1-2-3 and Symphony .wk* files, not the least due to the fact that Lotus (later IBM) very early on had published the format description and hence had become the de-facto industry standard, at least for spreadsheet data exchange.
That worked for everyone reasonably well until Microsoft decided to drop the ability to even read .wl* files in Microsoft Excel a few version ago...
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