dittrich@milton.u.washington.edu (Dave Dittrich) (03/29/91)
Can anyone tell me (via email, please) where I might find the specification for the .DIF file format used for import/export of data by spreadsheet programs like Lotus 1-2-3? If anyone has a library of routines that will read/write .DIF files, I would be interested in getting sources also. (OK, so I'm lazy :-) Thanks. -- Dave Dittrich dittrich@u.washington.edu ...!uw-beaver!u.washington.edu!dittrich
tvf@cci632.UUCP (Tom Frauenhofer) (04/03/91)
In article <1991Mar28.194511.18054@milton.u.washington.edu> dittrich@milton.u.washington.edu (Dave Dittrich) writes: >Can anyone tell me (via email, please) where I might find the specification >for the .DIF file format used for import/export of data by spreadsheet >programs like Lotus 1-2-3? (I'll post this since it might be useful to others) There is a book (I think actually a series of books) entitled "File Formats for Popular PC Software" by Jeff Walden. The one I have in my hand (ISBM 0 471-83671-0) includes descriptions of many file formats including DIF (and also the Supercalc 3 and Super Data Interchange formats, which are supposed supersets of DIF). -- Thomas V. Frauenhofer, WA2YYW, tvf@cci.com | "Death is Irrelevant. {uupsi,ccicpg}!cci632!tvf@uunet.uu.net | One time I saw an elephant in tvf@frau.UUCP | my pajamas - how he got there I tvf1477@ma.cs.rit.edu | don't know!" - Groucho Borg
dag@tc.fluke.COM (David Gunderson) (04/04/91)
The DIF technical Specification is available from: DIF Clearinghouse P.O. Box 638 Newton Lower Falls, MA 02162 --David Gunderson