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- GETSHEET
-
- A File Extraction Program
- for use with
- Lotus 1-2-3 Spreadsheets
-
- R. Fuller
-
- If you've ever tried swapping data between programs like Lotus
- 1-2-3 and dBASE, you've probably run across a few difficulties
- with file formats.
-
- Most programs will write their data to a file in a format that
- is more or less a "standard" interchange format that other
- programs will read. This ASCII interchange format is an offshoot
- of the type of files that BASIC programs seem to be comfortable
- with. Under this convention, each "field" in a record or file is
- separated from other fields with a comma, and alpha-numeric
- strings are enclosed in double quotation marks. This is the
- format that dBASE II and dBASE III refer to as 'DELIMITED WITH
- "'. This is also the exact format that Lotus will accept for its
- /File Import function.
-
- But Lotus is notorious for NOT being able to EXPORT data in
- the same format that it will use to input it! (Try converting a
- Lotus spreadsheet BACK to a Visicalc file!) And 123's conversion
- utility to convert spreadsheet data to a dBASE format generally
- yields disappointing results...
-
- GETSHEET was written in an effort to circumvent some of these
- problems. The program should accept ANY 1-2-3 spreadsheet and
- create an ASCII output file in the above described format that
- may be used as input to another program.
-
- The program will accept the names of two files on the command
- line. The first is the name of the spreadsheet to be converted.
- The second is the name of the file to be created. If either or
- both names are omitted, the program will prompt for the required
- names. If no extensions (file types) are specified, the default
- extension of .WKS is assumed for the input file, and .PRN is
- assumed for the output file.
-
- Don't be concerned about the program destroying your
- spreadsheet. The program ONLY READS the spreadsheet file.
-
- If you encounter a bug or two, please be patient, I'm still
- shaking out the logic.
-
- I hope you get some use from this program... good luck.
-
- R. Fuller