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Article #8659

Re: Excel Contour Maps

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From: Paul E. Jacoby
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1991 12:55
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In article <hoepfner.672498654@heawk1> hoepfner@heawk1.gsfc.nasa.gov (Patrick Hoepfner) writes:
>To get this stuff strait, Wingz will read SILK format and Excel will write 
>SILK format.  This is the way to get Excel docs from Excel to Wingz.  As 
>always, the Mac Bible it a couple of version out of date.  But reading 
>Excel docs from Wingz is not as easy as Full Impact. 

Actually, Wingz 1.1a will read Excel 2.2 files directly.  It's a $15
upgrade from Informix.

And it's "SYLK", not "SILK".  The latter is from a worm, the former is
from the days of Visicalc :-)
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From: pejacoby@mmm.serc.3m.com (Paul E. Jacoby)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Excel Contour Maps
Message-ID: <1991Apr25.125519.23690@mmm.serc.3m.com>
Date: 25 Apr 91 12:55:19 GMT
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