news@rushpc (Usenet news administrator) (03/28/91)
Hi, I'm running AT&T's SVR3.2.3/386 with developement set on my box. AT&T gave me the multi-user edition of Lotus 1-2-3 for UNIX System V. This Lotus creates its on data files in the UNIX filesystem but, the book says that it can also use DOS Lotus files. My question is, can I somehow read a DOS floppy directly with this LOTUS or do I need to have VPIX software? If I need VPIX, will ISC's VPIX work with the AT&T UNIX? ISC VPIX is less expensive, that is why I was considering their's. The Lotus 1-2-3 book is not to clear on this subject so I thought I would post my questions here. Thanks in advance. -- John ---- Westminster Colorado | One mile high and loving it in the Rockies.
johnl@iecc.cambridge.ma.us (John R. Levine) (03/28/91)
In article <1991Mar27.165100.1333@rushpc> news@rushpc (Usenet news administrator) writes: >Lotus [for System V] creates its on data files in the UNIX filesystem but, >the book says that it can also use DOS Lotus files. My question is, can I >somehow read a DOS floppy directly with this LOTUS or do I need to have VPIX >software? The file format for Unix versions of 1-2-3 is compatible with that for PC 1-2-3, but 1-2-3 doesn't try to do any magic with disk formats. You have to use some external means to move the files from place to place. To get the file on and off a DOS format floppy you might use VP/ix or one of the DOS to Unix disk utility programs that float across the net from time to time. Another inexpensive possibility is to run a cable from your Unix box to your PC and use xmodem, kermit, or zmodem. -- John R. Levine, IECC, POB 349, Cambridge MA 02238, +1 617 864 9650 johnl@iecc.cambridge.ma.us, {ima|spdcc|world}!iecc!johnl Cheap oil is an oxymoron.
news@rushpc (Usenet news administrator) (03/30/91)
Recently I posted an article asking how I might copy DOS Lotus 1-2-3 files from a floppy so that I could use them on my UNIX version of Lotus 1-2-3. I received e-mail informing me of dos(1) commands available in SVR3.2, doscp, dosdir, doscat, etc. I was not aware of these commands and after trying them, I sucessfully copied more than a dozen spreadsheets from floppy and was then able to use these spreadsheets with the UNIX Lotus. Many thanks to you that replied, you saved me many hours of work. -- John ---- Westminster Colorado | One mile high and loving it in the Rockies.