Re: Extra junk writing Excel 3.0a files?

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From: Chris Wee
Date: Tue, 04 Aug 1992 05:33

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I, too, had problems with Excel 3.0a.
In my case, it was reading dBase files incorrectly and truncating some
columns of numerical data.  I don't remember the exact column #.

Funny thing was, Excel 3.0, didn't exhibit the problem!  I reported the
whole thing to Microsoft (I paid the damned phone bill!!!) and they
agreed to look into it.  About a week later, they called back and said
they duplicated the bug but didn't find the problem.  I asked what they
could offer to help me finish my project (analyzing large data sets)
and they promised to send my Q+E and some technical books on Excel.

About a week later, some disks arrived in the mail, no paper, no documentation,
no books.  I don't think I ever fired up Q+E.  I haven't bothered to report
any more bugs to Msoft -- the $20-$30 phone charges wasn't worth the 1 or 2 Q+E
disks.

-chris

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