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From: pjw@usna.MIL (Peter Welcher )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Lotus WKS Format
Summary: Here's more info:
Message-ID: <188@usna.MIL>
Date: 29 May 89 02:23:33 GMT
References: <0YT2aDy00WB-QC-kEt@andrew.cmu.edu> <1474@naucse.UUCP>
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In article <1474@naucse.UUCP>, wew@naucse.UUCP (Bill Wilson) writes:
> You should get a book called File Formats for Popular PC Software
> by Jeff Walden.

The official reference is 
	Lotus File Formats for 1-2-3 (etc.)
	Lotus Books and Addison-Wesley Pub. Co. 
	ISBN 0-201-16824-3
	
If you care about Lotus 2.2 and 3.0 formats, you may have to wait
another 6 months, based on a recent query.
On the other hand, there apparently is not much new info in the
files (based on testing by a friend). The format is record 
oriented, so you can just chuck the ones you don't know about.
Or build a linked list and echo back, or do hex dump, or whatever.

BTW, a product I was once working on should appear soon from Brady
Books. It is a library for PC's, C or Turbo Pascal. It greatly
simplifies .WK1 file i/o. The reviewers liked it, anyway. Name when
last seen was something like WKS Toolkit. Expected publication date:
any day now. Seriously !

There is a product out already with a name like WKSLIB. I see it
in the C User's Journal ads. It does Lotus and DBase i/o, apparently.

For UNIX systems, I haven't seen anything. Roll your own ?