Re: Lotus 1-2-3 File Format

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From: Mark Medici
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 1990 21:04

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jwm775@uunet!unhd (Jonathan W Miner) writes:

>I am writing a C application that needs to create a LOTUS 1-2-3 file.
>Currently, I create an ASCII file and import to Lotus, but I'ld like
>to create the file directly.  It will be numeric data, real numbers.
>What is the file format?

Wiley Press (605 Third Avenue, NY, NY 10158) publishes several books
on file formats for PC software by author Jeff Walden.  I have the
1986 printing of "File Formats for Popular PC Software" that includes
1-2-3 1.x and 2.0.  I would expect that a more recent version would
cover 2.2 and higher.

Lotus uses a complex format that is not easily explained.  The above
book, or one like it, will be your best reference.

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From: medici@dorm.rutgers.edu (Mark Medici)
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Subject: Re: Lotus 1-2-3 File Format
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