[comp.sys.mac] DIF & SYLK formats

sysop@stech.UUCP (Jan Harrington) (09/11/87)

Please help if you can.  I need the details of the DIF and SYLK file formats
as background material for a book that I'm writing.  If you know of a relatively
easily obtainable reference for one or both, please let me know as soon as
possible.  

Arg - help - I'm running up against an October 1 deadline!!!!

Thanks in advance.

Jan Harrington, sysop
Scholastech Telecommunications
ihnp4!husc6!amcad!stech!sysop

phco@ecsvax.UUCP (John Miller) (09/15/87)

A description of the DIF and SYLK formats can be found in File Formats for 
Popular PC Software -- A Programmer's Reference, by Jeff Walden, Wiley IBM PC
Series, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., ISBN 0-471-83671-0.

The same book contains file format descriptions for Lotus 1-2-3, Symphony,
Ability, dBase II and III, MultiMate, MultiPlan, IBM Plans+, SuperCalc3,
VisiCalc, and WordStar.

-- 
                        John Miller  (ecsvax!phco)
                        Dept. of Pharmacology, Univ. of N.C.-Chapel Hill
                        Chapel Hill, NC 27514       (919) 966-4343