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From: dmt@mtunb.ATT.COM (Dave Tutelman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Looking for data format specs
Message-ID: <1426@mtunb.ATT.COM>
Date: 8 Mar 89 12:23:11 GMT
References: <45900206@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: dmt@mtunb.UUCP (Dave Tutelman)
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In article <45900206@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> barnes@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
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>I need the specs to write Lotus, Excel, or DIF type data files.
>Does anyone know of a book or where I can get such information?

Yes!  I have a copy of a 1986 book (may have been updated since):

	Jeff Walden,
	"File Formats for Popular PC Software - A Programmer's Reference",
	Wiley, 1986.
	ISBN  0-471-83671-0

It covers the file formats for:
	Lotus 1-2-3 & Symphony
	Ability (ver 1.0)
	dBase II (2.43) & dBase III (1.1)
	DIF
	Multimate (3.30)
	Multiplan & SYLK
	IBM Plans+ (1.0)
	SuperCalc (2)
	VisiCalc
	Wordstar (2.2x - 3.31)
	Wordstar 2000 (1.01d)
Also has sample files in the appendix.

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