diff -urN --minimal gnumeric-1.0.8/plugins/guile/smob-value.c gnumeric-1.0.8-snow/plugins/guile/smob-value.c
--- gnumeric-1.0.8/plugins/guile/smob-value.c	Sat Apr 13 23:45:59 2002
+++ gnumeric-1.0.8-snow/plugins/guile/smob-value.c	Tue Jul  2 16:24:49 2002
@@ -211,7 +211,14 @@
 {
 	SCM_Value *v = (SCM_Value *) SCM_CDR (value_smob);
 
-	if (v->v->type ==  VALUE_STRING)
+	/* JAH: in case we do a get as string on an int, we expect
+	   the integer as string, nog EOL! gnumeric fully supports getting
+           stuff in as strings
+        */
+	if (v->v->type == VALUE_STRING ||
+            v->v->type == VALUE_BOOLEAN ||
+            v->v->type == VALUE_INTEGER ||
+            v->v->type == VALUE_FLOAT )
 		return scm_makfrom0str (value_get_as_string (v->v));
 
 	return SCM_EOL;