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The Epoch of the Lotus-eaters.

Posted 10-08-2016 at 07:59 AM by Michael Uplawski
Updated 10-18-2016 at 12:21 AM by Michael Uplawski (Lotus.., not Lutus. Sorry Paul.)

Epoch - an instant in time.
Lotus - (Here: ) a mystic tree, “bearing a fruit that caused a pleasant drowsiness”.
Lotus 1-2-3 - a myst... A spreadsheet program.

I make this short. There are several ways to avoid the 30 december 1899 to appear in spreadsheet programs (i.e. applications which resemble M$-Excel and even act a lot like it: Gnumeric, LibreOffice Calc, SoftMaker PlanMaker, others). Here is a list that may be incomplete, all the same:
  • Write a different date
  • do
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Text-mode spreadsheet viewer

Posted 08-29-2016 at 12:59 PM by Michael Uplawski
Updated 01-04-2024 at 01:17 AM by Michael Uplawski (It is ruby-filemagic!)

Edit 01/04/2024:
  • A new version of Viewworkbook is available on Rubygems.org (See Readme under “Documentation”.

Edit 01/30/2021:
  • The example-output is now a screenshot from a terminal window
  • Attached to this blog-entry, you find the man-page to viewworkbook as PDF (see sub-folder doc of the gem)


A little corniness

My favorite Office-Suite is SoftMaker Office. This is normally a closed source, commercial software package and I would not dare to expatiate on the
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