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From: ac4@pucc-j (Tom Putnam)
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Subject: Re: Multiplan question
Message-ID: <951@pucc-j>
Date: Mon, 24-Mar-86 09:23:57 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 24 09:23:57 1986
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In article <381@gargoyle.UUCP> west@gargoyle.UUCP (Steve Westfall) writes:
>Here is my problem.  I would like to be able to take copies of
>my spreadsheet files from the office and load them into my computer
>at home so that I can continue my work at home on occasion 
>...  Apparently Multiplan saves its files in different
>formats on the two different operating systems.  Is there any
>way in Multiplan to make it save the file in a format that will
>be portable to the other machine?

Check in your Transfer Options menu.  You will find the "mode" options:
Normal Symbolic.  Symbolic mode causes the Transfer operations to be done in
a character symbolic form instead of a machine dependent binary form.  You
must set the Symbolic mode before writing the spreadsheet on one machine, and
you must also set it before reading the symbolic worksheet on the other
machine.

I have done this successfully between a 4.2 BSD UNIX system running the
version of Multiplan from the Santa Cruz Operation, and an IBM PC version.
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