Re: Q: a way to enable save/over?
- From: Michael Meeks <michael helixcode com>
- To: Dan Kelley <Dan Kelley Dal Ca>
- Cc: Gnumeric Excel hackers <gnumeric-list gnome org>
- Subject: Re: Q: a way to enable save/over?
- Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 16:21:53 -0500 (EST)
Hi Dan,
On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, Dan E. Kelley wrote:
Hi. I'm loving using gnumeric, and have found only one snag: the
disabling of "save over" for excel-format files.
This was intended for your protection :-)
Q: is there something I can put in a dot-file to permit me to
save-over into existing files? I ask because I need the security of
having backups of my work. Right now I have to keep going over to a
shell window, 'mv' the file, and then go back and click on
gnumeric/save. Sure, that's not too difficult, but there is a good
chance of messing up.
It would be possible to allow this to happen; there are a number
of issues with testing it to ensure that it works reliably, of course, a
simple approach would be to move the file away and create a new one of
the same name, then unlink the old one.
The problem is; that there is no hard and fast garentee that your
excel file will load in excel again afterwards; whilst this is our aim, it
is by no means garenteed.
Gnumeric is a great thing, and it's probably at the stage where user
comments may be a valuable resource. (I *know* I can recompile it,
with the feature turned off, of course.)
Sure :-) code is appreciated too; of course, it shouldn't be very
hard to hack up the feature, the issue is testing it and working out a
sensible and complete approach. eg. once you wander into this area,
locking suddenly seems a good thing to implement etc.
Regards,
Michael.
--
mmeeks gnu org <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot
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