mveh2@cbnews.ATT.COM (edward.holdgate.iv) (11/21/89)
I came across a reference to a DOS file format refered to as "Sylk". Does anyone know what this is or what environment uses these files? Is it a European standard? Anyone know of a reference book of file formats I could look in? Thanks much! Ed Holdgate att!mvgpl!mveh2
kleonard@gvlv2.GVL.Unisys.COM (Ken Leonard) (11/22/89)
In article <11592@cbnews.ATT.COM> mveh2@cbnews.ATT.COM (edward.holdgate.iv) writes:
* I came across a reference to a DOS file format refered to as
* "Sylk". Does anyone know what this is or what environment
* uses these files? Is it a European standard? Anyone know
* of a reference book of file formats I could look in?
_Sylk_ is the phonetic of _SLK_ which is, I think, "Symbolic LinK".
It's used with Microsoft Multiplan (where it originated?) and Microsoft
Excel as an interchange format for spreadsheet files. There are probably
some other packages which can understand it. Ask MS for details.
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Kensteinbac@hpl-opus.HP.COM (Gunter Steinbach) (11/22/89)
> / hpl-opus:comp.sys.ibm.pc / mveh2@cbnews.ATT.COM (edward.holdgate.iv) > / 5:59 pm Nov 20, 1989 / > I came across a reference to a DOS file format refered to as > "Sylk". Does anyone know what this is or what environment > uses these files? Is it a European standard? Anyone know > of a reference book of file formats I could look in? There is, if I remember right, a "sylk" format that the Multiplan Spreadsheet (by Microsoft) can read and write. It is an ascii file, or at least it was on my unix system, with semicolon-delimited words making up lines=records, as opposed to the standard binary (Yech!) Multiplan file format. No special disk format, just a way of encoding everything including "SYmbolic LinKs" (get it?) of the spreadsheet. Disclaimer: I haven't used Multiplan in a year or so, so I'm getting hazy on this.... Guenter Steinbach | hplabs!gunter_steinbach | gunter_steinbach@hplabs.hp.com
bturner@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com (Bill Turner) (11/22/89)
> I came across a reference to a DOS file format refered to as > "Sylk". Does anyone know what this is or what environment > uses these files? Is it a European standard? Anyone know > of a reference book of file formats I could look in? I believe this is Microsoft's Symbolic Link file format, used by Multiplan. --Bill Turner (bturner@hp-pcd.hp.com) HP Corvallis Information Systems
leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson) (11/24/89)
mveh2@cbnews.ATT.COM (edward.holdgate.iv) writes:
< I came across a reference to a DOS file format refered to as
< "Sylk". Does anyone know what this is or what environment
< uses these files? Is it a European standard? Anyone know
< of a reference book of file formats I could look in?
This is Microsoft Multiplan's "symbolic link" file format. You should
be able to get from MicroSoft.
Note that this format is ASCII text, and is not a MS-DOS file format. It is
supported by *all* versions of Multiplan, on environments ranging from the
TRS-80 Model 100 laptop to XENIX systems.
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From article <11592@cbnews.ATT.COM>, by mveh2@cbnews.ATT.COM (edward.holdgate.iv): > I came across a reference to a DOS file format refered to as > "Sylk". Does anyone know what this is or what environment > uses these files? Is it a European standard? Anyone know > of a reference book of file formats I could look in? > Sylk (Symbolic Link) format is used by Microsoft for their Multiplan spreadsheet package. It is used to describe cell formatting etc. like that used by other spreadsheet formats. You can find a des- cription of the format in the book "FIle Formats for Popular PC Software" by Jeff Walden. -- Let sleeping dragons lie........ | The Bit Chaser ---------------------------------------------------------------- Bill Wilson (Bitnet: ucc2wew@nauvm | wilson@nauvax) Northern AZ Univ Flagstaff, AZ 86011