06-30-2010
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Originally Posted by
Corona688
As a rule of thumb, only Excel understands Excel. All Microsoft trumpeted about open document formats was pure baloney -- it's still a proprietary binary blob, wrapped in an open container format but still a proprietary binary blob.
I could not get this.. Please give me the solution to achive the above problem statement.
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py_xls2html
py_xls2html(1) General Commands Manual py_xls2html(1)
NAME
py_xls2html - convert an Excel xls file to a html formatted file
SYNOPSIS
py_xls2html input-file
DESCRIPTION
This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.
py_xls2html takes an Excel xls file as an argument and converts it to a html formatted file. Output is sent to stdout.
Additional utility scripts can be found in the tools/ directory.
OPTIONS
This program does not take any command line options.
AUTHOR
pyexcelerator and py_xls2html were written by Roman V. Kiseliov <roman@kiseliov.ru>.
This manual page was written by Kevin Coyner <kcoyner@debian.org> for the Debian system (but may be used by others). Permission is granted
to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any later version published
by the Free Software Foundation.
On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.
SEE-ALSO
pyexcelerator(1), py_xls2txt(1), py_xls2csv(1)
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