GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 136730
Opening Lotus/Excel worksheet shows no data
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
When opening a Lotus/Excel worksheet (*.wks) file, no data appear. The same file can be imported into OpenOffice and Excel/2000 without problem however. This is not how things should be. Version of gnumeric is gnumeric2-1.1.20-36.
Created attachment 25442 [details] Sample file that did not work (created by iozone)
I was unable to find a utility or menu entry corresponding to "configurable text import". Where should that be?
Oops: My last comment actually refers to bug #136729 (too many different bugzillas out there; your verion continues with the next bug automatically, so the comment ended here).
What type of file is that supposed to be ? It does not conform to our specs of what a .wks file should look like. There is a bug in that current (1.2.x) releases recognize it as old pre-excel95 xls. However, that is secondary. My copy of oo crashes opening it.
As indicated in the comment for the attachment, the file was created with iozone (http://www.iozone.org/). In the source release the file src/current/libbif.c states that the file format is intended to be "Excel worksheet Microsoft BIFF format(...) The Excel version is set to 2.0 so that it will work with all versions of Excel". Author of the file is given as "Don Capps (Hewlett Packard), 1999". So it seems the format should be well-know enough in the meantime ;-)
ok, that's much simpler. The file really is supposed to be an old xls file. No problem, I'll have a look at why we're havingtrouble parsing it this evening. Current releases read bits of it. This is the first test of something that old.
Fixed in 1.2.8