Re: AWGS SS Translator...Why not?

[jasonp@norton.sps.mot.com (Jason Perez)]

In article <carndtD8nM0p.6vL@netcom.com> carndt@netcom.com (Chris Arndt) writes:
>So why can't one (or two :-)) of the whizbang GS programmers out there 
>reverse engineer the AppleWorks GS spreadsheet file format, and write 
>some sort of a translator that will convert them intact with formulas to 
>even only one other popular format, ready for transferring to a different 
>machine?

  My program jazGraph can read AW Classic spreasheet files.  I could easily
do this because the file format was available.  No file type note was
available for AWGS SS's, so I contacted Quality to see if they would
give me the format.  They said they didn't have it, and as far as they knew
there wasn't a standard format, they said AWGS does some kind of
memory dump to save the file.  Decoding the format without a FTN would
be a major task!

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