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From: kleonard@gvlv2.GVL.Unisys.COM (Ken Leonard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Anyone heard of a "Sylk" file format?
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Date: 21 Nov 89 18:05:12 GMT
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In article <11592@cbnews.ATT.COM> mveh2@cbnews.ATT.COM (edward.holdgate.iv) writes:
*  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?  
_Sylk_ is the phonetic of _SLK_ which is, I think, "Symbolic LinK".
It's used with Microsoft Multiplan (where it originated?) and Microsoft
Excel as an interchange format for spreadsheet files.  There are probably
some other packages which can understand it.  Ask MS for details.
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regardz,
Ken