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Re: Microsoft Does It Again

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	Hi.

On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 11:14:48AM -0400, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:
> I'm not trying to start a flame war or bash Microsoft (let's fact it, they
> don't pay attention), but I have a problem with an Excel file.
> 
> For reasons unbeknownst to me, somehow it got saved as an Excel OOXML file.
> I find that i don't have a Linux app that seems to able to open the file.

That's to be expected. M$ are relative newbies then it comes to vendor
lock-in, but they mastered this trick slowly last 30 years or so.

> Is there a Linux application that will allow me to recover the contents of
> the file?

Try xlsx2csv. It's a nasty python script, but it beats unpacking ooxml
(hint - it's a zip archive in disguise) and trying to decypher
underlying XML parody.

Reco

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Microsoft Does It Again "Stephen P. Molnar" <s.molnar@sbcglobal.net> - 2018-08-21 17:20 +0200
  Re: Microsoft Does It Again Patrick Wiseman <pwiseman@gmail.com> - 2018-08-21 17:30 +0200
  Re: Microsoft Does It Again Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2018-08-21 17:50 +0200
  Re: Microsoft Does It Again <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2018-08-21 17:50 +0200
    Re: Microsoft Does It Again "Stephen P. Molnar" <s.molnar@sbcglobal.net> - 2018-08-21 18:10 +0200
      Re: Microsoft Does It Again "Stephen P. Molnar" <s.molnar@sbcglobal.net> - 2018-08-21 21:20 +0200
        Re: Microsoft Does It Again Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2018-08-21 21:30 +0200
    Re: Microsoft Does It Again Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2018-08-21 18:10 +0200
      Re: Microsoft Does It Again <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2018-08-21 18:30 +0200
        Re: Microsoft Does It Again Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2018-08-21 20:20 +0200
  Re: Microsoft Does It Again Martin <keine-eile@online.de> - 2018-08-21 19:10 +0200
    Re: Microsoft Does It Again Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> - 2018-08-22 09:40 +0200
      Re: Microsoft Does It Again "Stephen P. Molnar" <s.molnar@sbcglobal.net> - 2018-08-22 12:50 +0200
        Re: Microsoft Does It Again Martin <keine-eile@online.de> - 2018-08-22 13:00 +0200

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