Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!olivea!uunet!stanford.edu!msi.umn.edu!cs.umn.edu!mmm.serc.3m.com!pejacoby 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 References: <1991Apr9.211914.7246@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <1991Apr10.212728.5934@cc.helsinki.fi> <1991Apr22.200929.22033@uservx.afwl.af.mil> Reply-To: pejacoby@mmm.serc.3m.com (Paul E. Jacoby) Organization: 3M - St. Paul, MN 55144-1000 US Lines: 16 In article 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always, the Mac Bible it a couple of version out of date.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 :-) -- .--------------------------------------------------------------------. | Paul Jacoby, 3M Company | Parachuting? Why jump out of a | | ** pejacoby@3m.com ** | perfectly good airplane? | `--------------------------------------------------------------------'