Re: A newbie who just would like to know....

[Jody Goldberg <jgoldberg home com>]

On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 06:57:27PM -0700, Rory D. Hudson wrote:
> Hello there everybody.....
>
> Well I am really happy with Gnumeric, it is a great product.  However, I
> would really like to be able to save over existing files as XL95 format,
> without having to rename them or without going through a process that is
> basically an import/export process.  Is this possible with the new
> version of Gnumeric? And if so can somebody outline for me exactly how
> to do it without breaking the rest of my system?  Thanks for all of the
> help and keep on rolling with Gnumeric.

Yes as of version 0.65 this is possible.  If you define the
environment variable
    GNUMERIC_ENABLE_XL_OVERWRITE
the safety check that disables overwriting existing xls files will
be disabled, and you will be able to handle the files smoothly.

Hope that helps
    Jody