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From: billw@felix.UUCP (Bill Weinberger)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re: Multiplan question
Message-ID: <996@felix.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 25-Mar-86 12:36:08 EST
Article-I.D.: felix.996
Posted: Tue Mar 25 12:36:08 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 20-Apr-86 12:45:04 EST
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Keywords: Multiplan SYLK

In article <381@gargoyle.UUCP> west@gargoyle.UUCP (Steve Westfall) writes:

>   I have Multiplan available to me on ...  an Altos running
>   Xenix.  At home ...on a Burroughs B25 workstation under BTOS.
>   
>   ...  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?
>   

The first thing I would try is to save the file in SYmbolic LinK (SYLK)
format.  This is an ASCII version of the spreadsheet that preserves
pretty much all of the information, including format.  To do this, set
T)ransfer O)ptions S)ymbolic before you save (and then load) the file.

I have no doubt that you might have problems in format compatibility
between the Burroughs machine and anything else (they "Burroughs'd"
all of the software they released on this not-compatible-with-anything
computer, don't blame Microsoft).  I don't exactly think of the B25 as 
a home computer.

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