Re: Freeware/shareware Win95 spreadsheets?

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From: Russell Schulz
Date: Fri, 09 Jan 1998 00:00

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staplei@planet.ari.dpi.qld.gov.au (Ian Staples) writes:

> I'm looking for a good but cheap (free would be nice :) spreadsheet
> to run under Windows 95.
>
> It would need to handle the old Lotus .WK1 file format at a minimum
> level of compatibility - but one or two Excel formats as well would 
> be very useful for our purposes. 

I doubt any programmer has put Excel capability into a free product --
the Excel formats are Ugly with a capital Ug.

WK1 is more probable, but I don't know of any that do that.

Oleo will handle SYLK, though.  I don't know if it's available on DOS.

> P.S. As our News server is frequently full and is, therefore, quite
> unreliable, I would appreciate e-mail responses should you have any
> definite recommendations.

if you put `Mail-Copies-To: always' in your headers, the more actively
maintained newsreaders will do this automatically.
-- 
Russell_Schulz@locutus.ofB.ORG  Shad 86c

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