Changing file formats 1

[Rvir]

Is it possible to change a file format eg: binary to csv or dsx to csv on unix ? if yes, suggest me some of the methodologies to be followed?

 

[Ogzilal]

Hi,
Files on unix are text files( scripts) or binary(compiled) files
What you call csv is some text file where fields are separated by a comma. You can't change this file to a binary ( say C compiled file ).
If you receive a file in a non portable spreadsheet format file ( say xls), you can't convert it to a text file with comma separated fields.
Is it what you are looking for ?

 

[feherke]

Hi

If you receive a file in a non portable spreadsheet format file ( say xls), you can't convert it to a text file with comma separated fields.

Yes, is generally correct, but that is a bad example. Because the existence of the [tt]catdoc[/tt] package, which contains [tt]xls2csv[/tt]. Free and good.

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[ZaSter]

Feherke,

Thanks for mentioning "catdoc". Have a star.

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ZaSter