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From: steinbac@hpl-opus.HP.COM (Gunter Steinbach)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Anyone heard of a "Sylk" file format?
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Date: 21 Nov 89 19:03:19 GMT
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> / hpl-opus:comp.sys.ibm.pc / mveh2@cbnews.ATT.COM (edward.holdgate.iv)
> / 5:59 pm Nov 20, 1989 /

> 	I came across a reference to a DOS file format refered to as
> 	"Sylk".  Does anyone know what this is or what environment
> 	uses these files?  Is it a European standard?  Anyone know
> 	of a reference book of file formats I could look in?  

There is, if I remember right, a "sylk" format that the Multiplan
Spreadsheet (by Microsoft) can read and write.  It is an ascii file, or
at least it was on my unix system, with semicolon-delimited words making
up lines=records, as opposed to the standard binary (Yech!)  Multiplan
file format.  No special disk format, just a way of encoding everything
including "SYmbolic LinKs" (get it?)  of the spreadsheet.

Disclaimer:  I haven't used Multiplan in a year or so, so I'm  getting
hazy on this....
	 Guenter Steinbach	 |	 hplabs!gunter_steinbach
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