Gnumeric 1.0.12 (on Gentoo Linux) just crashed, apparently while sorting a table, and the file is now unopenable -- Gnumeric puts up a little notice saying that it is not an OLE file, "Sorry, the Management". I'd be less piteous about this, except that it was my wife's file, with several hours of work in it :-<. I'm interested at the moment in trying to get the data out of this file. Looking at it with hexdump shows that the file is not completely scrambled; it seems to have a lot of real data in it. (It was an .xls file.) But I know nothing about the .xls format. Does anyone have any pointers about how I might be able to get real data out of this file? If anyone is interested in looking at the actual file -- it isn't large -- I can send it off list. (It contains some address information, so I'd rather not post it.) Thanks, Jacob Smullyan "Hapless in New Jersey"
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